I’ve been playing with sound production (JACK, audio software, etc.) on my laptop for some time; it’s a lot of fun, but then I found out that everytime I have a videocall I need to do (once) the following steps because the built-in microphone is out of reach, nowhere to be found:
1 - run “$ systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service”
2 - restart web browser
Then, everything’s back to normal. Would anybody tell me how to avoid these steps?
Can you list the changes you’ve made and let us know what the status is of the microphone after a reboot? (I.E. is it always unavailable or does it become unavailable after some time)
if the former, would automating a pulse-audio restart at logon be a good workaround?
I installed JACK, Cadence, I switched several times between the built-in soundcard and an external usb interface… I don’t know, I made quite a lot of changes. I’m no expert…
I think an automatic pulse-audio restart would be nice, and I would appreciate some help to do so.
If it doesn’t or only does work every now and then, increase the 5 in sleep 5 by 1 second and keep increasing until it does work (or if it’s too slow, decrease that number)