How to fix no sound after using pulseaudio

[Member RJP]

Found from: https://wiki.debian.org/ALSA

1. Remove all pulse packages via Synaptic

2. Remove pulseaudio config files

rm -r ~/.config/pulse/*

3. Re-install alsa-packages and start alsa

sudo apt-get --reinstall install libasound2 libasound2-plugins alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui apulse alsa-firmware-loaders

sudo alsactl init

4. Test sound

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Thanks for the tip.
Mine is simply not to install pulseaudio

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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[Member blur13]

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Amazingly timely tip, I’ve spent all afternoon setting up alsa to work with znes and other old 32-bit games. And setting up apulse to finally work with firefox. No easy feat. But now I can finally purge pulseaudio from all my systems.

[Member PPC]

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blur13 wrote:

I’ve spent all afternoon setting up alsa to work with znes and other old 32-bit games. And setting up apulse to finally work with firefox.

Is it possible for you to provide, in a new thread, an how to, please? That would be very useful, to lots of users, and maybe be included as default in antiX (but I never had problems using “apulse firefox”)?

P.

[Member blur13]

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Sure

[Member marcelocripe]

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Thanks a lot for this tutorial.

[Member DaveW]

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RJP, In your first post, above, step #3 (re-install), is the last word in the first line complete (“als”) or a typo?
Thanks, DaveW

[Member blur13]

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There is actually a scrollbar in the “code box” so you can scroll to the right to see the complete line:

sudo apt-get –reinstall install libasound2 libasound2-plugins alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui apulse alsa-firmware-loaders

but dont copy it from here (this post) since the double dash gets converted into a single dash in the forum, unless put inside code tags.

[Member DaveW]

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blur13,
Thank you for the tips. I was unaware of the scrollbar.
DaveW

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