pulse is silent, alsa works, any hints for fixing pulse?

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/16/14 21:27, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Ever since I installed the nvidia binary driver to get video
> working on my GTX 750Ti card, the audio is screwed up.
>
> If I suspend pulse and run alsamixer to unmute all
> the built in audio devices on the motherboard, I
> can play audio fine with a command line:
>
> aplay -Dplug:front
>
> But if I run pluseaudio, and set the output to the
> motherboard's analog stereo output, I get no sound.
>
> Is there any procedure for translating cryptic
> working alsa into differently cryptic working pulse?
>
> Is there some way to convince snd_hda_intel to utterly
> ignore the nvidia display port/hdmi and only recognize
> the natic motherboard audio?

Which desktop are you using? 

With KDE it is sometimes necessary to coordinate the pavucontrol settings with the Audio/Video settings in the KDE Systems Settings menu.  Making sure that the devices are sorted in the order you desire as well as making sure the settings in pavucontrol haven't resulted in a particular device becoming "unavailable" a.k.a. grayed out.

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