Actually, I've had this problem with both Ubuntu and Linux Mint:
Sound goes away.
I have a speaker amp connected via optical TOSLink to my
System76 Thelio workstation. The former displays the PCM
rate of the audio connection. Usually, that's 44.1kHz.
Occasionally it will report "no signal", and I have to reboot
the box to get sound back -- and not a soft reboot, but
a big-red-button reboot.
Also, sometimes it has sound dropouts, similar to what used
to happen with USB sound back in the day on earlier systems.
Running "pulseaudio -k" usually clears that up.
I've been through all the potential workarounds on the
System76 knowledgebase for sound problems.
Thing is, the TOSLink connector is usually on the motherboard,
and I don't have problems with them. But this time, I think
the connector is on a daughterboard, and I suspect it is
connected to the motherboard via USB.
Anyway, it's annoying. I have a ticket open with System76,
and we'll see if they have something else to suggest.
On 3/10/2024 3:16 PM, vallor wrote:
Actually, I've had this problem with both Ubuntu and Linux Mint:
Sound goes away.
I have a speaker amp connected via optical TOSLink to my
System76 Thelio workstation. The former displays the PCM
rate of the audio connection. Usually, that's 44.1kHz.
Occasionally it will report "no signal", and I have to reboot
the box to get sound back -- and not a soft reboot, but
a big-red-button reboot.
Also, sometimes it has sound dropouts, similar to what used
to happen with USB sound back in the day on earlier systems.
Running "pulseaudio -k" usually clears that up.
I've been through all the potential workarounds on the
System76 knowledgebase for sound problems.
Thing is, the TOSLink connector is usually on the motherboard,
and I don't have problems with them. But this time, I think
the connector is on a daughterboard, and I suspect it is
connected to the motherboard via USB.
Anyway, it's annoying. I have a ticket open with System76,
and we'll see if they have something else to suggest.
This is an off-charter post.
Thing is, the TOSLink connector is usually on the motherboard, and I
don't have problems with them. But this time, I think the connector is
on a daughterboard, and I suspect it is connected to the motherboard via
USB.
Actually, I've had this problem with both Ubuntu and Linux Mint:
Sound goes away.
I have a speaker amp connected via optical TOSLink to my
System76 Thelio workstation. The former displays the PCM
rate of the audio connection. Usually, that's 44.1kHz.
Occasionally it will report "no signal", and I have to reboot
the box to get sound back -- and not a soft reboot, but
a big-red-button reboot.
Also, sometimes it has sound dropouts, similar to what used
to happen with USB sound back in the day on earlier systems.
Running "pulseaudio -k" usually clears that up.
I've been through all the potential workarounds on the
System76 knowledgebase for sound problems.
Thing is, the TOSLink connector is usually on the motherboard,
and I don't have problems with them. But this time, I think
the connector is on a daughterboard, and I suspect it is
connected to the motherboard via USB.
Anyway, it's annoying. I have a ticket open with System76,
and we'll see if they have something else to suggest.
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:16:55 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:
Thing is, the TOSLink connector is usually on the motherboard, and I
don't have problems with them. But this time, I think the connector is
on a daughterboard, and I suspect it is connected to the motherboard
via USB.
Is an optical connection really worth using?
My white-box machine has one, but instead of bothering to use it, I gota
USB 7.1 adapter box to run my Logitech surround speakers, and that has
been working fine for the better part of a year now.
I am still in the process of tracking down some audio trouble with my
Galago Pro laptop; when I installed Debian 12 Stable on it, the sound
worked fine, but when I upgraded to Debian Unstable, it went mute.
Currently I got sound back after a couple of fiddles: one involved
comparing what modules were loaded by default under the two systems and making adjustments accordingly, and other following the steps described
at
<https://support.system76.com/articles/audio/>.
Another reboot will be coming up when I do my monthly upgrade; then I’ll try these steps separately (if I need to), and see which one actually
did the trick. ;)
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:33:02 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <usmc3e$3g6h5$1@dont-email.me>:
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:16:55 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:
Thing is, the TOSLink connector is usually on the motherboard, and I
don't have problems with them. But this time, I think the connector is
on a daughterboard, and I suspect it is connected to the motherboard
via USB.
Is an optical connection really worth using?
I prefer it, if only because the sound takes a pure digital
path to the DAC in the amplifier, and it's opto-isolated.
But USB would offer the same pure digital path, and the
amplifier accepts USB. Both are plugged into the UPS,
so maybe I should just go for it. (I've just had bad luck with
USB audio before, but perhaps that is a thing of the past.)
By the way I ditched pulseaudio on this laptop.
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:33:02 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <usmc3e$3g6h5$1@dont-email.me>:
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:16:55 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:
Thing is, the TOSLink connector is usually on the motherboard, and I
don't have problems with them. But this time, I think the connector
is on a daughterboard, and I suspect it is connected to the
motherboard via USB.
Is an optical connection really worth using?
I prefer it, if only because the sound takes a pure digital path to the
DAC in the amplifier, and it's opto-isolated.
But USB would offer the same pure digital path, and the amplifier
accepts USB. Both are plugged into the UPS,
so maybe I should just go for it. (I've just had bad luck with USB audio before, but perhaps that is a thing of the past.)
By the way I ditched pulseaudio on this laptop.
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:51:24 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote in <usmr7t$3j8em$3@dont-email.me>:
By the way I ditched pulseaudio on this laptop.
Do you use pipewire?
I'm not sure that I can run proton without pulse -- and really, the
latter has never been a problem for me. I prefer the flexibility
and control of pulse. I've used it in the past to set up a virtual
device for streaming, so that people don't hear videos or streams I'm
playing on another monitor on my own stream.
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:51:24 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
By the way I ditched pulseaudio on this laptop.
I run Debian Unstable, and it got rid of PulseAudio a little while back,
and replaced it with PipeWire.
Think of PipeWire as being like PulseAudio, only it handles both audio and video, whereas PulseAudio was audio-only.
Another nice thing is I don’t need to start up JACK any more if I want to run music/audio production apps, since that functionality is built into PipeWire.
What about MIDI?
But not all applications yet support Pipewire, right? Unless using the pipewire-jack shim? How robust is it?
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:02:06 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
What about MIDI?
It still supports the two, incompatible kinds of MIDI API like JACK did, necessitating an intermediary like a2jmidid if you want to make
connections between them.
But not all applications yet support Pipewire, right? Unless using the
pipewire-jack shim? How robust is it?
For my limited doodling sessions, pw-jack seems to work OK. I can start things like FluidSynth and ZynAddSubFX with it, and make sounds with them just fine.
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