[mythtv-users] Completely remove and reinstall sound

[Mike Perkins]

On 08/11/16 09:33, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 21:11:22 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have been struggling for some time to correct some sound issues.
>>
>> One problem I have is that sometimes but not always I get no sound
>> at all. The workaround for that is to restart xfce4-session after
>> startup and then it always works. Feels like a race condition between
>> some processes I can't figure out.
>>
>> The system is Debian Jessie, but it has been updated all the way
>>from Etch (2007) or there about.
>>
>> Now, with no better ideas, I thought that if I completely remove the
>> installed sound and all configuration files and reinstall it again I
>> was hoping that it would set everything up correctly. Maybe it's a
>> longshot.
>>
>> I don't find any alsa configuration files but I found one for pulseaudio
>> even though the pulseaudio package wasn't installed. However, I had
>> libpulse0 and libpulse-mainloop-glib0 installed. But uninstalling them
>> would practically remove mythtv and many other things.
>>
>> So, what else except this would I have to do to completely remove:
>>  mv /etc/pulse/client.conf /etc/pulse/client.conf_old
>>  apt-get purge alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-utils
>>
>> And what packages do I need to install?
>>
>> Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Peter Carlsson
>
> What are you using for your audio output?  On Mythbuntu 16.04, I am
> using SPDIF, and am having a persistent problem where something is
> turning off the SPDIF output in Alsa.  If I run alsamixer and unmute
> the SPDIF output, it works again.  Until the next time it happens.  I
> have yet to work out what may be doing this, but it was not happening
> with my Mythbuntu 14.04 setup.  Does that sound anything like your
> problem?
>
Don't you have to arrange to save your updated ALSA settings and restore them when the next boot 
occurs? I don't have this problem so I can't advise, but I remember a discussion along these lines a 
good while back.

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Mike Perkins