Audio/sound erratic-- works at times then no sound

[dolphin_oracle]

with pulseaudio 7? if so, post the Exec line please.

Pulseaudio 7.1-2mx150+1

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Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11

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Great!

In pulse 7 the start command is different from pulse. It's actually the same as the non kde startup. IN pulse 5 it the command is start-pulseaudio-kde, but that isn't working right.

[Stevo]

I don't have the -kde desktop file in there, just a pulseaudio.desktop that has that same Exec line:

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Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11

Is that because the only tinkering I've done with pulseaudio is to backport and install the 7.1-2 version?

[richb]

I don't have the -kde desktop file in there, just a pulseaudio.desktop that has that same Exec line:

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Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11

Is that because the only tinkering I've done with pulseaudio is to backport and install the 7.1-2 version?

The only tinkering I have done is to enable pulse audio on startup via the System Settings > Startup and Shutdown.

[dolphin_oracle]

I don't have the -kde desktop file in there, just a pulseaudio.desktop that has that same Exec line:

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Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11

Is that because the only tinkering I've done with pulseaudio is to backport and install the 7.1-2 version?

I can't tell you that. However, I can say that pulseaudio 5 on your kde-snapshot has a pulseaudio-kde.desktop file that launches pulseaudio with the command

start-pulseaudio-kde

and there is a script by that name that is different than start-pulseaudio-x11. the kde version loads more modules.

Here I just changed the pulseaudio-kde.desktp file Exec= line to start-pulseaudio-x11 and my seemingly random pulse crashes have gone away. The debian change logs say they did away with start-pulseaudio-kde in version 5.99.

[sps7]

I had some similar problems with pulseaudio in KDE at first, but they went away when I upgraded pulseaudio from the test repo to 7.1-2 (the same version as in jessie-backports). Could you give that a try? ........

I did the above and that seems to have quickly ended the sound/audio troubles I was having. I hope sound remains sound for me and I hope that others using KDE with MX-15 can use the same method if having unsound sound.

Thanks to all who have had an interest in this thread and to those making comments here.

[Stevo]

Does anyone have any objections to moving the new pulseaudio to main?

[dolphin_oracle]

Does anyone have any objections to moving the new pulseaudio to main?

Maybe post about pulse 7 outside of the kde area?