Linuxembourg
Active Member
I have seen the pinned thread regarding what to do in case of no sound, and restarting pulseaudio works fine for me. As does the much longer process of rebooting that I was previously undertaking.
However I have a few related questions to alsa/pulse. I don't really want to ask on SE as there are a few questions, and some of them I suspect don't really have concrete answers. I hope I've put this in the right place.
Is it normal for the audio to drop out "now and again"? It is trivial to restart pulse, and I can live with doing that (even once a day), but does it indicate an underlying issue, or is it normal? The sound dropping out to dummy audio happens randomly afaict, sometimes even upon boot.
This random drop-out issue seems to be quite prevalent for Ubuntu based distros. Is it the case for all Linux distros?
I changed some settings in the config file, which were necessary in order to reduce stuttering to acceptable levels. I don't know if changing those settings has created the drop out issue. Previous to changing these settings stuttering was not rare and it was also illogical. Now stuttering is rare and logical (you can still make out what someone said, even if it stutters).
I added the line (without ; at the beginning):
realtime-scheduling = no
And I amended as follows:
; nice-level = -15
; default-fragments = 8
; default-fragment-size-msec = 10
Is it normal that I had to play around with the daemon.conf file to get audio working properly, or did it indicate an underlying issue?
However I have a few related questions to alsa/pulse. I don't really want to ask on SE as there are a few questions, and some of them I suspect don't really have concrete answers. I hope I've put this in the right place.
Is it normal for the audio to drop out "now and again"? It is trivial to restart pulse, and I can live with doing that (even once a day), but does it indicate an underlying issue, or is it normal? The sound dropping out to dummy audio happens randomly afaict, sometimes even upon boot.
This random drop-out issue seems to be quite prevalent for Ubuntu based distros. Is it the case for all Linux distros?
I changed some settings in the config file, which were necessary in order to reduce stuttering to acceptable levels. I don't know if changing those settings has created the drop out issue. Previous to changing these settings stuttering was not rare and it was also illogical. Now stuttering is rare and logical (you can still make out what someone said, even if it stutters).
I added the line (without ; at the beginning):
realtime-scheduling = no
And I amended as follows:
; nice-level = -15
; default-fragments = 8
; default-fragment-size-msec = 10
Is it normal that I had to play around with the daemon.conf file to get audio working properly, or did it indicate an underlying issue?