rockedge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 1:50 ammanaged to get audio working, pretty much straight forward using
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xbps-install -y alsa-utils ffmpeg apulse pulseaudio
then opened
alsamixer
in a terminal, increased the master volume setting and for now I am starting pulseaudio manually with:Code: Select all
pulseaudio --daemonize=yes
That's good, but no way do you need both apulse AND pulseaudio (which is actual full pulseaudio - apulse is just a way to allow a pseudo pulseaudio interface for apps that otherwise need pulseaudio). If you go for full pulseaudio (which I would recommend), its possible you are also needing to install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio:
https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/media/pulseaudio.html
For applications which use ALSA directly and don't support PulseAudio, the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package can make them use PulseAudio through ALSA.
Also, I would install pavucontrol for all the stream selection (inputs/outputs/record/playback) and volume setting facilities that nicely provides. The combination of full pulseaudio with pavucontrol certainly works beautifully for me in WDL_Arch64 and even most Pups have finally moved to using pulseaudio rather than trying to fudge it via apulse.
Not sure if 'troubleshooters' link is up-to-date, but might prove useful still (though you definitely don't need sox application): http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/vo ... .htm#audio
Though not required for reference at this point, the following seems like quite a nice detailed description/explanation of all the possibilities surrounding Linux Audio Stack more generally: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2021 ... stack.html
By the way, regarding boot from iso file - I have done nothing myself in that effort up till now aside from testing fredx181 Porteus search mod variants. I'll later think about how best to merge that work into the main builds, once I fully understand/work-out all aspects of how the code is working and to address any possible mix-license issues (the blkid search and parse methodology isn't itself a license issue itself though, since that is what blkid is designed for and every distro using it pretty much similarly). But for now anyone can just use the results of Fred's efforts - a few mysteries about operation of some of it, but certainly works - doesn't effect other boot modes than for those wishing to boot from iso file anyway.