[SoaS] SoaS 32 is silent?

[Frederick Grose]

So I found that SoaS and Fedora Workstation, at least, have the audio
output sink default on card/port index 1 instead of the convention of index
0.
Where and how this goes this way, I don't know.  But it happens on more
than one system.

I've updated the bug report, https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4998.

A workaround is to use the PulseAudio command,
$ pacmd set-default-sink 0


On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:36 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> > With Fedora-SoaS-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso I'm hearing no sound.
> > And see no log messages.
> >
> > Is this a common problem?
>
> Ultimately in this cycle in particular an awful lot changed, we moved
> completely from python2 -> python3 among a lot of other changes.
>
> For me the Speak activity works for me on a VM and that's my usual
> go-to sound tester as I don't need to find any media to play.
>
> Things like sound are very complex, multiple output, defaults,
> different hardware. Some level of detail of the hardware and the setup
> is useful to even begin to know what the issue may be, is there any
> errors in dmesg etc.
>
> Peter
>
> > ----------
> > From: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> > Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:04 PM
> > To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
> Sugar-dev Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> >
> >
> > I've no idea about your sound problem.  It doesn't happen for me on
> > Debian or Ubuntu.  I get sound from Speak and Music Keyboard.  I get
> > sound into Measure.
> >
> > For not seeing any log messages; Python 3 holds messages in process
> > memory and does not flush logs.  Another layer of buffering.
> >
> > Log files in .sugar/default/logs should be read after stopping the
> > program that writes to them.
> >
> > For activity logs, you have to stop the activity and confirm with
> > Frame F6 that it is stopped.
> >
> > For shell.log you have to log out and log in again.
> >
> > For datastore.log you have to log out for a couple of minutes and then
> > log in again.  Otherwise the same datastore process may be reused.
> >
> > James Cameron
> > http://quozl.netrek.org/
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > From: Alex Perez <aperez at alexperez.com>
> > Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:11 PM
> > To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
> Sugar-dev Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> >
> >
> > Frederick,
> >
> > Chances are, with the sound problem, that this is a system/Fedora
> specific problem, and has nothing to do with Sugar. You can test this
> hypothesis by downloading a different spin of RC1.6, for example the LXDE
> Live ISO, and test sound there.
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/32_RC-1.6/Spins/x86_64/iso/Fedora-LXDE-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso
> >
> > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
> >
> > Thanks for the hints.
> >
> > I tested a live USB installation of LXDE 32-1.6 and got sound for the
> music player sample.
> >
> > So probably not Fedora in general, nor Sugar, but something in the SoaS
> build.
> >
> > I've opened https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4998 and attached the
> zipped logs from some test sessions.
> >
> >
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