[pulseaudio-discuss] sink creation initialization timings

[David Osguthorpe]

PS Should say I havent attempted to change anything in the profiles  (ie
anything in
/usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets or /lib/udev/rules.d/
90-pulseaudio.rules) - its all default Ubuntu 20.04.

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 6:36 PM David Osguthorpe <david.osguthorpe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If I stop the pulse daemon (systemctl --user mask pulseaudio.socket, systemctl
> --user stop pulseaudio)
> then start the daemon with pulseaudio -vvvvv or systemctl --user start
> pulseaudio everything works, the remap device remap-analog-surround-40
> exists and is set as the default sink (no reboot).
>
> I have not tried explicitly using the commands via pacmd - Ill see what
> happens.
>
> I have a feeling its something to do with profiles - but dont understand
> why the profiles seem to be activated after everything else and how to
> change this - well I dont understand profiles.
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 5:51 PM guest271314 <guest271314 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What happens when you run the commands at terminal without using or
>> relying on default.pa or ~/.config/pulse?
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 9:40 AM David Osguthorpe <
>> david.osguthorpe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This is direct from the boot logs:
>>>
>>> default.pa file in ~/.config/pulse
>>>
>>> #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF
>>>
>>> #
>>>
>>>
>>> .include /etc/pulse/default.pa
>>>
>>>
>>> .fail
>>>
>>>
>>> set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-surround-40
>>>
>>>
>>> load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=remap-analog-surround-40
>>> master=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-surround-40  channels=4
>>> channel_map=front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right
>>> master_channel_map=front-left,rear-left,front-right,rear-right remix=no
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ### Make some devices default
>>>
>>> #set-default-sink output
>>>
>>> set-default-sink remap-analog-surround-40
>>>
>>> #set-default-source input
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> syslog portion where fails to load:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:33 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Starting GLib main
>>> loop
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:33 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Loaded
>>> "module-filter-heuristics" (index: #21; argument: "").
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:33 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Loaded
>>> "module-filter-apply" (index: #22; argument: "").
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:33 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Master sink not found
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:33 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Failed to load module
>>> "module-remap-sink" (argument: "sink_name=remap-analog-surround-40
>>> master=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-surround-40  channels=4
>>> channel_map=front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right
>>> master_channel_map=front-left,rear-left,front-right,rear-right remix=no"):
>>> initialization failed.
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:33 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Sink
>>> alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-surround-40 does not exist.
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:33 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Sink
>>> remap-analog-surround-40 does not exist.
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:33 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Successfully
>>> connected to D-Bus session bus fd35a79135b7241371a4f2745fe88d2d as :1.8
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> syslog from same boot where analog-surround-40 is first mentioned:
>>>
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:37 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Looking at profile
>>> output:analog-surround-40
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:37 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Checking for playback
>>> on Analogue Surround 4.0 (analog-surround-40)
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:37 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Trying surround40:0
>>> with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:37 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Managed to open
>>> surround40:0
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:37 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]:
>>> snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format(Signed 16 bit Little Endian) failed: Invalid
>>> argument
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:37 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]:
>>> snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format(Signed 16 bit Big Endian) failed: Invalid
>>> argument
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:37 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]:
>>> snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format(Float 32 bit Little Endian) failed: Invalid
>>> argument
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:37 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]:
>>> snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format(Float 32 bit Big Endian) failed: Invalid
>>> argument
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:37 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Maximum hw buffer
>>> size is 92 ms
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:38 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Set buffer size first
>>> (to 4408 samples), period size second (to 1102 samples).
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:38 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Device surround40:0
>>> doesn't support sample format s16le, changed to s32le.
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:38 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Profile
>>> output:analog-surround-40 supported.
>>>
>>> Dec 27 13:33:38 david-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1422]: Removing path
>>> 'analog-output' as it is a subset of 'analog-output-speaker'.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> analog-surround-40 is a valid setting for Sound output in the Settings
>>> dialog - and is set  as the default output device.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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