Bento antiX i486 on laptop Asus A4D (sound turnaround)

[Member melodie]

This is a very old laptop, as the BIOS pointed to a date 18 years ago before I changed the CMOS battery. And testing multiple distributions on it, Devuan could make the sound work. Then later I installed Bento antiX (32bits of course) but then the sound didn’t play anymore. So I wondered why, and I just went through the files in /etc/modprobe.d and in the list of packages and found these: http://meets.free.fr/files/nvidia-modem-blacklist.conf

(while looking into lshw I could see both the nvidia modem and nvidia audio chipset were using the same snd_intel8x0m driver, so I guessed it should be prevented to be loaded somehow, I just had not thought the name of the file could be “a thing” ?).
Then even after a reboot it was not enough, and before that, trying to use pulseaudio had not worked, it would not succeed in connecting to the pulse server… This is when I decided to install this package from the Devuan repos : debian-pulseaudio-config-override_1.0_all.deb
http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/d/debian-config-override/

and this did the trick. So I wanted to tell you about it, because it has been a great improvement for this laptop. Then next Bento antiX out will have it too (just the package installed, and the blacklist file).

I think it would be a good addition to antiX.

[Member Xecure]

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I saw someone linking to this in Facebook.

Doesn’t this package simply remove the disable autospawn?

Description: Debian configuration overrides for pulseaudio
 empty package which overrides upstream configuration.
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   - remove /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf

This is only for sessions NOT using desktop-session-antiX (like xfce, lxde, kde…).
Wouldn’t you have simply edit this file (/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf or follow the instruction dolphin_oracle explained in its video?
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/kde-install-help-on-runit-core/#post-34792
This package should not be needed at all.

In antiX, using desktop-session, edit desktop-session’s startup file and add pulseaudio -D & before the volume-icon entry, as explained at least 10 times in the forum.

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Bentoo doesn’t use the antiX desktop session files, so both of you are correct.

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