trying to figure out this sound thing, I never had to go through this using Linux. It just works. so yeah I'm basically confused
using bluetooth earbuds:
this system uses oss but it compiles firefox to use pulseaudio which only gets speakers and plugged in headphones.
oss and the others have a 100% sound limit
pulseaudio does not, it gives sound that little extra push that I usually need using laptop plugin headphones and or bluetooth and speakers to hear videos either on a web browser or vlc /mpv
right now I have to use two separate web browsers firefox because it is sync to everything for the reasons of being sync
now I had to install another web browser to hear YT and tubi through BT but sndio has a plugin for pulseaudio . so what exaily does that do as I installed it added the line in that pa file now pulse it not creating a file for itself under /var/run any more.
at least I did not notice that message until after I installed sndio-pulse because how I got rid if that pulse message was to add myself to pulse group and now I am seeing it again now that I installed sndio-pulse
so I do not know if it maybe something else I have done having hacked away on this sound set up adding things to this and that to see what results I can get. nor if that sndio-pulse is actually suppose to make pulse work with sndio via BT even because it does not specifically say that.
with BT connected
it use to say dsp0.0 dsp0.1 dsp0.1 dsp2.0 dsp2.2 as well I think that is how it went as I remember it had more then it is now showing as I had to access them all to figure out which one it was using to set up BT which is using dsp1.1
I might just still be in denial about being able to use pulseaudio and BT and firefox and have to accept that I will just have to use two web browsers if I want to hear YT and anything else on the internet via BT
using bluetooth earbuds:
this system uses oss but it compiles firefox to use pulseaudio which only gets speakers and plugged in headphones.
oss and the others have a 100% sound limit
pulseaudio does not, it gives sound that little extra push that I usually need using laptop plugin headphones and or bluetooth and speakers to hear videos either on a web browser or vlc /mpv
right now I have to use two separate web browsers firefox because it is sync to everything for the reasons of being sync
now I had to install another web browser to hear YT and tubi through BT but sndio has a plugin for pulseaudio . so what exaily does that do as I installed it added the line in that pa file now pulse it not creating a file for itself under /var/run any more.
at least I did not notice that message until after I installed sndio-pulse because how I got rid if that pulse message was to add myself to pulse group and now I am seeing it again now that I installed sndio-pulse
so I do not know if it maybe something else I have done having hacked away on this sound set up adding things to this and that to see what results I can get. nor if that sndio-pulse is actually suppose to make pulse work with sndio via BT even because it does not specifically say that.
Code:
pulseaudio-module-sndio
sudo ee /usr/local/etc/pulse/default.pa
#useradded for sndio
load-module module-sndio device=snd/0
Code:
Apr 12 16:43:20 FreeBeSsDe kernel: Apr 12 16:43:20 FreeBeSsDe pulseaudio[26734]: [(null)] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/var/run/user/1000/pulse): No such file or directory
Apr 12 16:47:16 FreeBeSsDe pulseaudio[659]: [(null)] module-sndio.c: Cannot open sndio device.
Apr 12 16:47:16 FreeBeSsDe pulseaudio[659]: [(null)] module.c: Failed to load module "module-sndio" (argument: "device=snd/0"): initialization failed.
Apr 12 16:47:16 FreeBeSsDe pulseaudio[659]: [(null)] oss-util.c: '/dev/dsp0' doesn't support full duplex
Apr 12 16:47:16 FreeBeSsDe pulseaudio[659]: [(null)] oss-util.c: '/dev/dsp2' doesn't support full duplex
Apr 12 16:47:29 FreeBeSsDe pulseaudio[659]: [oss] module-oss.c: pa_read() failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
Apr 12 16:53:44 FreeBeSsDe pulseaudio[659]: [(null)] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/var/run/user/1000/pulse): No such file or directory
Apr 12 16:53:44 FreeBeSsDe kernel: Apr 12 16:53:44 FreeBeSsDe pulseaudio[659]: [(null)] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/var/run/user/1000/pulse): No such file or directory
userx@FreeBeSsDe:~$ ls /var/run/user/1000
at-spi dbus-1 dconf
userx@FreeBeSsDe:~$ groups
userx wheel video pulse
userx@FreeBeSsDe:~$ date
Wed Apr 12 16:56:23 CDT 2023
Code:
ls /var/run/user/1000
at-spi dbus-1 dconfwith BT connected
Code:
$ cat /dev/sndstat
Installed devices:
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> (play)
pcm1: <Realtek ALC236 (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0)> (play/rec) default
pcm2: <Realtek ALC236 (Right Analog Mic)> (rec)
Installed devices from userspace:
dsp: <Virtual OSS> (play/rec)
Code:
ls /dev/dsp*
/dev/dsp /dev/dsp1.1
Code:
userx@FreeBeSsDe:~$ pacmd stat
Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 989, size: 10.7 MiB.
Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Total sample cache size: 0 B.
Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default channel map: front-left,front-right
Default sink name: oss_output.dsp1
Default source name: oss_input.dsp1
Memory blocks of type POOL: 1 allocated/117 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type POOL_EXTERNAL: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type APPENDED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type USER: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type FIXED: 0 allocated/872 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type IMPORTED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.