On Monday 20 December 2021 10:09:56 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Well, sound on the Debian side of things works, as in playing youtube > > > videos and such. It doesn't work in the Slackware virtualbox, which is > > > apparently trying to connect to Pulseaudio. Going through the Xfce > > > application menus just now I see very little that would tell me what it > > > is that's actually running here, so I figure I probably need to typs > > > something on the command line in a terminal, but I don't know what. > > > > > > One thing that shows up in the Xfce application menu under multimedia is > > > "Pulseaudio Volume Control". When I invoke this a small window pops up, > > > with the text "Establishing connection to Pulseaudio. Please wait" and > > > then nothing happens, even if I let it sit there for quite a while. > > > > > > Suggestions as to where I might look for the problem? > > > > In general, that message means that even if there is a copy of > > the pulseaudio daemon running, it is not running with the right > > userid and the X11 session you are running in doesn't know about > > it. > > > > Run "pulseaudio --start" and try again. > > That did get the volume control as invoked from the Xfce applications menu > working, all right. Looking in the process table that I see under KDE > System Monitor (what I usually use to keep track of system loading) I now see > pulseaudio in there twice. One shows the command you mention here, and the > other one doesn't, and says "daemonize=no". I'm guessing that's the > problem, where to fix it is another question. Mousing over it I also see > "parent=systemd" for both of them... > > Looking at "man systemd", nothing jumps out at me with regard to where I > want to go from here. With this having been done, after restarting the virtualbox instance, sound is now working there also. What I might need to fiddle with in terms of systemd is not at all clear to me, though. I don't know why this would have changed with the upgrade.
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