I installed Pulse Audio and I'm getting crashes. I've intalled PA using Ragnar's distro, because it takes forever for me to download the official NOOBS distro from the states, and I'm trying to put together a bluetooth streaming, voice-activated music box, and the work I've done so far requires Raspian specific things, and Ragnar's distro is much more similar than the official one.
Before I install pulse audio (and a few other packages), things were working fine. Clumsy (since the drivers had to be compiled into the kernel), but fine. Now, when I play any music files, there's no sound at all. Running 'alsa -l' shows Wolfson to be the default, but 'pactl list sources short' shows Broadcom's DAC as default. And also, often but not always, running 'pactl' would cause the kernel to crash. Do a fresh reboot, still no sound. Wondering if it's a power issue, I take out everything off the USB port (except the keyboard), and while trying to debug problems using either 'alsa something' or 'pactl something' the kernel crashes again.
My question could just boil down to: how to make both alsa and pulse audio see the Wolfson card as default. I'm not quite learned on either utilities to know how to do that.
Anyone?