So, I've been troubleshooting this since my sound card stopped working after a reboot a couple of days ago. I've made a lot of progress, but there's one last little thing I'm stuck on.
Right now, when I log in to the system, the audio output defaults to my television (tertiary monitor on the system), and my sound card is not listed as an available device.
However, when I run pulseaudio -k
, it re-initializes and loads the sound card, which I can then select as the audio output device, and it works fine.
So, it seems like something is loading out of order, or perhaps too slowly, or something isn't waiting long enough when pulse audio originally initializes.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get pulesaudio to load correctly on my initial log in, so I don't need to pull up a terminal, kill it, and re-select my device every time I log in?
TIA!