Fix Sound on Linux

A few weeks ago I booted up my Win10 laptop and ran Steam. I started playing Civilization 5 then all of a sudden my Linux machine started streaming Civilization 5. How cool! I could control the game from my Linux machine even though Civ5 was ran on the Windows machine.

Within 10 minutes the stream crashed and I lost sound. My self problem solving issue hasnt been successful.

I checked in the BIOS and my sound card is enabled.

I read somewhere the problem happens because steams library for linux uses 32bit, not sure though.

I am on CentOS7

Please help.

It looks like the problem is with pulse audio being off.

[pulseaudio -k
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process]

So lets try to start the daemon with [
[[root@orcacomputers public_html]# pulseaudio -vvv
W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 10.0
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -W -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option -fdiagnostics-color=auto
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 4 23:02:59 UTC 2020
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 12 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is e5d93296104a420da01a33ba305d6f26.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 8.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /root/.config/pulse/e5d93296104a420da01a33ba305d6f26-runtime.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /root/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib64/pulse-10.0/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.]
pulseaudio -D
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

Make sure you have TeamViewer so I can give you access to my machine. I want to get this solved asap!
About the recuiter
Member since May 20, 2018
Rio Tri
from Ontario, Canada

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