PulseAudio Sucks!

[Joshwaa]

Whenever I restart my computer all my hardware disappears from the PulseAudio Audio Settings and the sound indicator disappears from the top bar. Whenever I run aplay -l my sound devices are listed.
I have no idea what's going on, I've tried purgeing and reinstalling both alsa and pulseaudio and reinstalling but that only works until I restart next.

Any help?

[MoreOrLess]

You'll have to look in dmesg to see why the kernel module isn't loading.
Note: this has nothing to do with pulseaudio. That's like downloading/installing the wrong sound driver in Windows and declaring, "Device Manager sucks!"

[Joshwaa]

Can someone please help? This is urgent, I'm close to just removing Ubuntu altogether right now.

[MoreOrLess]

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You'll have to look in dmesg to see why the kernel module isn't loading.

This might make it easier: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo

[Joshwaa]

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It'd help if I knew what I was looking for..

Here's the output of aplay -l anyway
http://pastie.org/2862392

[Joshwaa]

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=5d...670f7f0e664a2c

That's what I got back

Oh derp, after reading it "Pulseaudio Running: No"
I've just added PulseAudio to startup applications, hopefully this will fix it.

[inobe]

it's a way to diagnose the problem.

simply open terminal, then paste cd ~/ in terminal and hit enter.

now paste

wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh

and hit enter, type y to upload your results.

once it's done, it will provide a link, you can paste that link on next post.

[Joshwaa]

it's a way to diagnose the problem.

simply open terminal, then paste cd ~/ in terminal and hit enter.

now paste

wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh

and hit enter, type y to upload your results.

once it's done, it will provide a link, you can paste that link on next post.

I just did that above, PulseAudio wasn't running for some weird reason, it was my understanding that it opened automatically on boot but I probably broke it.

Thanks for your help!

[inobe]

i found this method, get confirmation before trying it!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio#P..._automatically

PulseAudio does not start automatically
If PulseAudio does not start at login time, you can try to set the gconf value of /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd to true.

[inobe]

notice the thread is solved, may i ask what solved it?