Messy PulseAudio Solution

[Konstantin Svist]

On 02/14/2012 11:42 AM, Fedora User wrote:
> In Pulse v. Me, this is just some trial and error. YMMV
>
> The symptom is not being able to select the correct audio output device.
>
> What seems to work is, from root, pulseaudio --kill&&  pulseaudio -D
>
> Pulse will kvetch about running from root (I DID say that it is messy).
>
> Gnome-control-center: The proper card is selected.
>
> KDE system settings: The device list is replaced with "Pulseaudio Sound
> Server" while all of the options are available in "Audio Hardware Setup"
>
> Given that I have a rather recent laptop (i5 w/Intel sound) I
> suspect that this is a pervasive problem. "Messy" beats pulling hair.

It doesn't usually break for me, but when it does I run (as normal user):
$ pulseaudio -k
$ pulseaudio

and that's it...