Configuring Sound - Night Mode

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The board says Configuration, so I think this belongs here.

I am trying to configure Pulse Audio with a GTX 580 HDMI connection, as well as a Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series. I followed the instructions found here:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Pulseaudio#Dynamic_range_compression_.28night_mode.29

I tried both sections, but nothing new shows up as an output device as the guide suggests. I am a novice at configuring Linux systems, so I mostly only have a slight idea what I am doing half the time. I am desperate to figure out how this works, a sound system with normalized output would be a godsend. I’d also not mind being able to add other plugins after I figure out how to get this one working.

I really hope someone can help.

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Some of the sound blaster X-Fi creative devices don’t play well with GNU/Linux. I can’t say if yours is one.

Could you please run a diagnostic script that provides a LOT more information. First configure your PC/openSUSE such that you think sound should work. Then with PC connected to the internet, in an xterm/konsole as a regular user send this command:


/usr/sbin/alsa-info-sh

and select the SHARE/UPLOAD option when asked, and let the script run to completion. When it completes, look in the xterm/konsole and it will provide you a web-address/url to share. Please post that address here. We can then go to that page and maybe that will give us some hints as to what may be configured or mis-configured on your PC ?

Note I am flying to a different continent in less than 12-hours (I’m about to go to bed) so it may be some days before I can check out your reply. Sorry 'bout that.

Good luck on this !
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I can hear sound on all my output devices. The compressor stuff doesn’t work, so perhaps this does belong in the software board and not hardware. My apologies.

Here is the URL as requested. The command was alsa-info.sh though, either you made a typo or I have a different file name than you do.
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=f3186c5dce9c367426f9564d526ca7a0bfd0e11e

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Yes I made a typo. Its 'alsa-info.sh" and not “alsa-info-sh”.

Your PC has the largest aplay output that I have ever seen.

I note your HDMI devices are:


**card 3:** NVidia [HDA NVidia], **device 3:** HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
**card 3**: NVidia [HDA NVidia], **device 7: **HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
**card 3:** NVidia [HDA NVidia], **device 8**: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
**card 3:** NVidia [HDA NVidia], **device 9:** HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

ie hw:3,3, hw:3,7, hw:3,8, hw:3,9. Typically only one of those is the actual active HDMI. Have you tried to route audio to them from your application of choice using the application pavucontrol ?
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I have 4 sound devices.

  1. Razer Megalodon Headset
  2. Integrated Sound - can’t remember what the ASUS Sabertooth 990fx has
  3. GTX 580 - Mini HDMI (x1, no clue why it thinks there are so many)
  4. Sound Blaster

I have tested 1, 3, and 4. All the devices output sound. I can route audio to any of them through the pavucontrol. Again though, it just seems the plugin mentioned on that wiki page will not add an output device like it is said to.

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I confess then, if 1, 3, and 4 work, I don’t understand the problem that you have wrt sound.
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I’ll be blunt. I meant for this thread to be about getting “Night Mode” working. That is what the title tried to communicate and what the url directed to.

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Being polite and direct, and with a reasonable non cryptic description is IMHO always the best approach.

Trying to fill in the possibly missing gaps wrt my understanding as to what you have encountered, then is it correct to say wrt your help request:

  1. you installed both ladspa-swh-plugins and pavucontrol ,
  2. you edited the file /etc/pulse/default.pa as described in the link SDB:Pulseaudio - openSUSE Wiki
  3. you restarted restart Pulseaudio
  4. you opened pavucontrol and no matter what configuration was applied (AND also with show all output devices selected in the output tab of pavucontrol) the SC1 LADSPA plugin was not selectable as output device ??

Note also - that wiki is tested for openSUSE-11.2 and 11.3 . There is no report of it being tested for any openSUSE version more recent than 11.3. Leap-42.1 is SIGNIFICANTLY more recent than 11.2 and 11.3. That does not mean it will not work with a newer openSUSE version - but it does mean if it does work, no volunteer has taken the time to update the wiki to indicate such functionality with a newer version.

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Yes, you are correct. I don’t know what else I could even try.

I do have one thing to add though, a plugin output device shows up if I use the equalizer. So I guess that works to some degree. I had a hard time finding good settings with it - that was my problem there. It was nearly a week ago, I believe I needed to reselect the device every time modified the settings (painful). I couldn’t save over presets I made also. Not really the focus problem though.

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I realise this was months ago now but as the author of the wiki entry in question i wanted to respond:

The OP didn’t make clear at any point that they’d installed pulseaudio-utils and ran pacmd to get their device identifiers, as described in the wiki article.

When dealing with multiple sound cards you can’t just copy-paste the codeblock on the wiki, you need to adjust it for your correct device identifiers. (i’ve now made bold the mention of this on the wiki)

@OP (on the chance you still end up seeing this):
If you post me the output of:

pacmd list-sinks | grep name:

I can post for you exactly what you need to put in default.pa

Also it does work fine on Leap 42.1. I’m watching sound-compressed Netflix with it on a multi-sound-device Leap system right now. :smiley: