Using pulseaudio

[joplass]

Hello good people of the forum,

I want to move to pulseaudio because I want to be able to switch to the HDMI output with pavucontrol. I installed pulseaudio, alsa-utils, and pavucontrol. Pavucontrol does not seem to find any audio hardware. Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks.

 

[Alexander88207]

Hello,

do you have already tried to switch to your HDMI output using cat /dev/sndstat for list the devices and sysctl hw.snd.default_unit= for switching to them?

Example usage:

cat /dev/sndstat

Installed devices:
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> (play)
pcm1: <USB audio> (play/rec) default

sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=0

cat /dev/sndstat

Installed devices:
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> (play) default
pcm1: <USB audio> (play/rec)

 

[cmoerz]

What do you get when you run pactl info?

 

[joplass]

Yes, I can do all that and it works. I have other people who can't deal with the terminal so I thought maybe pavucontrol could help.

 

[Alexander88207]

I have other people who can't deal with the terminal so I thought maybe pavucontrol could help.

If this is the reason why pulseaudio is used, then I recommend programs that use FreeBSD's basic sound system (OSS) such as audio/fossmixer or audio/mixertui

You can find more mixers in this thread: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mixer-application.77153

 

[joplass]

Thank you. I will get to work.

What I thought could help was gtk-mixer unfortunately it could not switch to HDMI for me.