Re: [orca-list] Semi-OT: Selecting Pulse device/profile from the command line

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

First, I feel for you! When this kind of thing does not work automatically it can be a nightmare to deal with.
I have never had quite such a complex setup as you are running, so can not give specific help.
One thing I have done in the past that may or not apply to your case is to backup my personal pulse directory 
and copyit back when things stop working as 
desired.
This is found in your home directory, 
~/.config/pulse
Again, I am not sure this will be the ticket for you, but it can't hurt to try.
Good luck, and let us know if you find this works or figure anything else out that is helpful.


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     B.H.
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  Nolan Darilek wrote:
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 05:50:26PM -0500

> I have a semi-complicated soundsetup. My laptop has crappy internal speakers
> that I don't use unless I have to. It plugs in via USB to a dock, which has
> an internal sound device that I don't use. To the dock I've connected a
> Creative USB 5.1 surround system to which my desktop speakers connect, and
> which sees most of my use. I also run a set of wireless headphones, also
> connected via USB, which are only occasionally connected and in use.
>
> This complicated setup never gave Windows any issues, but Linux/Pulse just
> can't handle it. At the moment I have the correct sound setup configured,
> but if I disconnect my hub then I often don't get sound back when I
> reconnect it. I've taken to pulling the hub connection, which causes
> fallback to the internal speakers, at which point I navigate to Settings and
> reconfigure the right connections.
>
> But lately something is horribly broken and I don't know what. Sometimes,
> despite arrowing up and down on the device selection combo box, sound goes
> away and never comes back (I.e. I'd expect it to return at some point if my
> selection lands back on Internal Speakers, but it never does.) Sometimes,
> plugging back in the hub doesn't bring back my USB devices (as in, even my
> USB keyboard doesn't come back) and I can only conclude that rapidly cycling
> devices is confusing some subsystem or other.
>
> Does anyone have any experience configuring this mess via the command line?
> It would be useful if I could dump my configuration as it is now, run a
> terminal command, and restore my preferred configuration without using the
> GUI. I also want to restore my sound profile to 5.0 Surround, which lately
> seems to be causing crashes as well. I seem to be locking up Linux entirely
> such that I can't even switch to another TTY and reboot.
>
> As a semi-related aside, is there a way to navigate settings in combo boxes
> without selecting them? I'm wondering if I can navigate directly to the
> device I want and activate it without navigating through, and presumably
> rapidly cycling, a whole bunch of other devices between my current choice
> and the one I want. I don't know if that might be causing anything, I'm just
> annoyed at having to hard shutdown this laptop all of a sudden because I've
> lost all but my internal speakers.
>
> Thanks.
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