[mythtv-users] Completely remove and reinstall sound

[Peter Carlsson]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:33:34PM +1300, 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?

I am using the HDMI on a GeForce GT 240 to a Denon 3806 A/V receiver.

/Peter