PulseAudio 8.0 Brings Systemd Journal Logging, OS X / NetBSD Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PulseAudio 8.0 Brings Systemd Journal Logging, OS X / NetBSD Improvements

PulseAudio 8.0 has been released as the latest version of this open-source sound server...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PulseAudio-8.0-Released

[markg85]

Ohh, this very much seems like a release that can finally fix my usb headphone issues

[D_T_G]

Is there an easy way to update pulseaudio in linux mint 17.3? Currently I have 0.4 and not everything works.

[lumks]

Is there an easy way to update pulseaudio in linux mint 17.3? Currently I have 0.4 and not everything works.

switch over to Manjaro and wait until next week (or 2 Weeks. maybe it'll take a while in unstable and testing). as mint user you'll love it and its not that insecure as mint is :P

otherwise ... no

[profoundWHALE]

you'll love it and its not that insecure as mint is :P

Ahahahaha

[profoundWHALE]

Is there an easy way to update pulseaudio in linux mint 17.3? Currently I have 0.4 and not everything works.

Yes, and no. It's really not that bad though. There's a PPA that would work which is:

ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/pulse-testing

And assuming you have a version that works with it, you would run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/pulse-testing
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Otherwise you will have to do it manually. I do it like this:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Copy and paste the highest version (right now is 16.04) wherever you like, usually at the very top or very bottom.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-audio-dev/pulse-testing/ubuntu xenial main

Save, and then

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 72B194E5
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

I like my version because if it breaks something (which this kind of thing usually does) then all you have to use is gedit, remove the line, save and update/dist-upgrade. With add-apt-repository, it will create a separate file the same name as the ppa in /etc/apt which you simply have to delete, but I don't like to have to navigate all the way to it to find out it's name, then type it all out in the terminal like /etc/apt/sources/blahblah*.list, so instead I run sudo nautilus which sometimes breaks since it doesn't like that, so I run sudo nautilus /etc/apt

[lumks]

sudo nautilus /etc/apt

Please read ... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ro...Graphical_sudo :/

[markg85]

Awesome, it really works now

However... One of the best new feature of this pulseaudio:

In case a sound card contains more than one profile (e g analog and HDMI profiles), module-switch-on-port-available will now switch away from the profile when no ports are available. E g, on a HTPC with headphones and HDMI outputs only, unplugging headphones will reroute the sound to HDMI, which did not work before. In addition, we also remember the last used profile for a port, so the expected HDMI profile is chosen (instead of just falling back to stereo).

that is true on if you load the module: "module-switch-on-connect" (which is not loaded by default) and only works on non KDE environments.. Sadly...

By default, pulseaudio is started via /bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 when you start a GUI environment (kde, plasma, gnome, etc...)

That file includes the lines:

if [ x"$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = x"true" ]; then
/usr/bin/pactl load-module module-device-manager "do_routing=1" > /dev/null
fi

And that specific module is apparently breaking the switching from module-switch-on-connect. In this case the fix is easy.
Comment the if out in start-pulseaudio-x11 and add the line:

load-module module-switch-on-connect

to /etc/pulse/default.pa

Then switching seems to work just fine for me. Also under KDE/Plasma5

Hope this helps others.
Going to add this to the archlinux pulseaudio wiki.

[bobwya]

Comment the if out in start-pulseaudio-x11 and add the line:


to /etc/pulse/default.pa

Then switching seems to work just fine for me. Also under KDE/Plasma5

Hope this helps others.
Going to add this to the archlinux pulseaudio wiki.

Oh ta, useful info

[Anvil]

f23 may get it