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PulseAudio is the only audio system I have used that can stop recognizing output hardware (on the motherboard!) without a reboot. On the worst of its competitor
by dsr_ 9y ago
PulseAudio is the only audio system I have used that can stop recognizing output hardware (on the motherboard!) without a reboot. On the worst of its competitors, you can be assured that once you get it working, it continues to work at least until reboot, and usually until you change config or upgrade the wrong package.
- hnlmorg 9y agoI get that occasionally when putting my laptop to sleep with a HDMI cable plugged in, then waking it up with the HDMI cable unplugged. I've found killing the PulseAudio pid (systemd restarts it) usually fixes it. Weirdly trying to restart it properly through systemd doesn't work but YMMV This is on ArchLinux running KDE4
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- Macha 9y agoUnplug a usb audio device, even unintentionally from a Windows PC and look at the havoc it can cause. Your media player is probably smart enough to handle it, your voip app is probably smart enough, your browser is maybe smart enough. Everything else though? Watch as it decides to play via HDMI to your speakerless monitor or crashes if that's not recognised as an audio device. Or crashes anyway. Or just never plays sound again until a reboot.