pulseaudio in 7.7.1 ...

[Albretch]

$ dpkg -l | grep pulse
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:i386 0.10.31-3+nmu4+b2 i386 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:i386 1.8.3-1+b1 i386 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 9.0-3 i386 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii libpulse0:i386 9.0-3 i386 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libsox-fmt-pulse:i386 14.4.1-5+b1 i386 SoX PulseAudio format I/O library
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http://www.knoppixforum.de/knoppix-forum-deutsch/sonstiges/thread4268/pulseaudio-verwenden-aber-wie.html


suggests to start the pulseaudio demon a la: /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start


However:


$ which pulseaudio
$
$ ls -l /etc/init.d/pulseaudio
ls: cannot access '/etc/init.d/pulseaudio': No such file or directory


$ sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start
sudo: /etc/init.d/pulseaudio: command not found


$ ps aux | grep pulseaudio
knoppix 4871 0.0 0.0 6352 832 pts/4 S+ 06:53 0:00 grep --colour=auto pulseaudio


How can you start pulseaudio (or (re)install it?) if needed?

[klaus2008]

Hello!

I suggest you open an LXTerminal and issue the following commands.


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavucontrol
mkdir -p ~/.config/pulse
echo "autospawn=yes" > ~/.config/pulse/client.conf
echo "daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio" >> ~/.config/pulse/client.conf
restartx

Use the PulseAudio volume control from the "Multimedia" menu to adjust settings.