Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:24 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio not working no matter what I try Message-ID: <4f706c1d6b12c26492064d415ea60d23672fe9d4.camel@riseup.net> In-Reply-To: <20260527121906.04f4c270@Hydrogen>
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On Wed, 2026-05-27 at 12:19 +0100, Polarian wrote: > I have a feeling because desktop packages pull in pulseaudio that this > could be the issue, but this would require me literally uninstalling > my desktop, which is 1. not a solution and 2. not something I > have time to do for debugging. Hi Polarian, consider to test what Google's AI answered me: "To control PulseAudio in FreeBSD, install a GUI mixer like pavucontrol or CLI tools like pulsemixer. These tools map to your PulseAudio server, allowing you to manage individual application streams and hardware endpoints directly." or "To disable PulseAudio on FreeBSD, stop the running daemon and prevent it from auto-spawning. To ensure it remains disabled after rebooting, you should also disable the XDG autostart entry and stop it from launching inside specific desktop environments or web browsers. 1. Disable PulseAudio Auto-spawn Open (or create) the client configuration file for your user:nano ~/.config/pulse/client.confAdd the following line to disable auto-spawn: autospawn = no (Optional) Repeat the steps for /usr/local/etc/pulse/client.conf to apply this setting globally for all users. 2. Kill the Running Daemon pulseaudio --kill [...] General Desktop: Open your Desktop Environment’s audio settings (e.g., KDE Plasma or XFCE) and verify your output device is set to the default native FreeBSD audio device (often listed as /dev/dsp), rather than the PulseAudio virtual device." I don't have a FreeBSD at hand. However, "beep" and escape sequences are issue on their own, don't try to use this for testing audio output. On Linux I installed empty dummy packages for pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth pulse-native-provider pipewire-pulse the packages libpulse lib32-libpulse are installed. IOW the libpulse.so rubbish is installed, but not the rest. Pulseaudio isn't in the way and I have ALSA working. You probably could try to "rm" the pulseaudio clobber, but keep the libpulse.so rubbish and after that try to get OSS working. Regards, Ralfhome | help
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