[pulseaudio-discuss] PA Startup problem on Acer Aspire One

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Mark Greenwood at 01/06/09 20:41 did gyre and gimble:
> Strange issue.. my Acer Aspire One is having issues since I installed
> pulseaudio on it.. I think they might be related to bootup speed,
> since this model has a rather slow SSD from which it boots. I'm
> running PA 0.9.15
> 
> Essentially, if I start PA using the 'normal' method (i.e. just
> install it and let the scripts do what they are supposed to) then I
> get no audio. I can start pavucontrol and I can see activity in the
> vu meters for the applications, but there is no activity on the vu
> meter for the output (Intel HDA). I also can't play anything using
> direct ALSA output in an application, because something (PA
> presumably) has control of the sound card, although
> module-suspend-on-idle is loaded.
> 
> If I kill pulseaudio and start it again from the command line, it all
> works correctly.

Even if pulse suspends itself, it should be able to unsuspend OK unless 
something has snuck in and grabbed the device.

When it's in this locked state, the output of "pacmd list-sinks" will 
confirm if it's in the suspended state and you should be able to issue a 
"pacmd suspend-sink 0 false" to unsuspend sink with index 0. If it is 
locked into a suspend state, this should try and unsuspend it.

You can also try hitting the mute button twice in pavucontrol to see if 
it is another occurrence of the infamous "undetected mute on startup bug."

> I have a suspicion that it might be due to the slow bootup and
> perhaps something to do with suspend on idle. Can I disable suspend
> on idle somehow to test this theory (I couldn't find it in
> default.pa)? Anyone else have any other ideas?

Look again ;)

My default.pa has:
### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle


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