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| melodie | hello | 11:58 |
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| cfhowlett | melodie, greetings | 11:59 |
| melodie | I do have a very basic question, how does one restart alsa nowadays? :D | 11:59 |
| melodie | hi cfhowlett | 11:59 |
| melodie | I am trying to configure my headset (Logitech) connected by USB with the help of this one tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/UsbAudioDevices | 12:00 |
| melodie | and I would like to avoid rebooting the whole system to try my configuration | 12:00 |
| cfhowlett | melodie, reboot shouldn't normally be required for a usb device | 12:01 |
| melodie | cfhowlett, so what would be the magical command to restart alsa ? It seems not to be a service anymore since some time | 12:03 |
| melodie | I just avoided the problem so far, too many things needed to investigate at same time made me lazy on that one | 12:04 |
| zequence | melodie: That tutorial is about 6 years old, and not very relevant | 12:04 |
| cfhowlett | melodie, I'm on 12.04 - alsa in a terminal gives the options including force-reload | 12:04 |
| zequence | no need to do any alsa configs of that kind | 12:04 |
| zequence | melodie: Are you using your device with jack? | 12:05 |
| melodie | hi zequence no the headset is plugged in with a usb connector | 12:05 |
| melodie | zequence, so I can forget about the config? :'( | 12:06 |
| zequence | melodie: jack is a pro audio server | 12:06 |
| melodie | I was so happy to think it might be possible to use it with alsa | 12:06 |
| zequence | melodie: Yeah, just forget about that page | 12:06 |
| melodie | fortunately I did a copy of the conf file before starting | 12:07 |
| zequence | the desktop audio system is called pulseaudio, which uses alsa as its backend | 12:07 |
| zequence | so, you are already using alsa | 12:07 |
| zequence | There are some devices that might work with alsa, but not with pulseaudio, in which case it will work with jack | 12:08 |
| melodie | I don't like pulseaudio because each time I tried with that headset it was a pain in the ass : 1) to get the headset to work, trying each configuration ; 2) to get it to work again when I didn't want to use the headset ; 3) to get it to work again when switching back to headset | 12:08 |
| melodie | I mean finding which output device to use | 12:08 |
| melodie | so I should try installing Jack? | 12:09 |
| melodie | pa is not the default in my install because it is a custom remix | 12:09 |
| melodie | light, with openbox and some all made configs (not as in crunchbang, it has another type of setup) | 12:09 |
| zequence | in that case, a 6-10 year old tutorial might actually be what you want | 12:09 |
| zequence | ..since most of us went on to use PA since then ;) | 12:10 |
| melodie | zequence, I could give it a try : is there a way to restart alsa ? | 12:10 |
| melodie | well once I did a mistake: | 12:10 |
| melodie | I bought a USB headset | 12:10 |
| melodie | and that worked before, with p-a, but the way I tell you, not without lots of time used for very little - since then I once tried it in Windows and of course this headset works out of the box there. (grumpf!) | 12:11 |
| melodie | cfhowlett, I want for alsa force-reload, thanks | 12:17 |
| melodie | it does not like my backup file btw :D | 12:17 |
| melodie | ok I tried and configured and reconfigured and retried, the config is ignored. | 12:23 |
| melodie | is Jack easier to configure than P-A or not really? | 12:23 |
| cfhowlett | melodie, I've never found jack especially easy, but then I've never needed it for my work. | 12:26 |
| melodie | it would be nice for me to get this headset to be instantly seen by the system when I plug it in, and to be removed when I plug it out, then allowing the speakers of the laptop to start working again | 12:28 |
| cfhowlett | melodie, agreed. since this issue isn't specific to ubuntu studio, ask in #ubuntu to get more eyes on it. | 12:30 |
| melodie | cfhowlett, thanks | 12:31 |
| melodie | he the configuration works after all! I had to restart fully the system and now the headset works | 12:49 |
| melodie | ^^ | 12:49 |
| melodie | I have to digg further to see if I can make it switchable | 12:49 |
| cfhowlett | melodie, progress | 12:52 |
| melodie | cfhowlett, I think I could get it to work "normally", perhaps... | 12:53 |
| melodie | would you know how to create an udev rule? | 12:53 |
| melodie | I will be rebooting now | 12:59 |
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