when installed on Librem5(PureOS) pulseaudio does not load

[chri2]

PureOS is basically a Debian without blobs.

When 99-input-remapper.rules is active the pulseaudio server of the default user 'purism' cannot be loaded, because it doesn't find any soundcards.

The Librem5 got the following two soundcards:

root@pureos:~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: L5 [Librem 5], device 0: 308b0000.sai-wm8962 wm8962-0 [308b0000.sai-wm8962 wm8962-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Modem [Modem], device 0: 30030000.sai-bm818 bm818-0 [30030000.sai-bm818 bm818-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Attached you can find a list of all the inputs available (including an external keyboard/mouse via usb attached).

l5-inputs.txt

input-remapper-control --list-devices shows:

root@pureos:~# input-remapper-control --list-devices
Starting logging to "/var/log/input-remapper-control"
Wireless Keyboard/Mouse
EP0700M09
30370000.snvs:snvs-powerkey
gpio-keys

[sezanzeb]

wow, that's weird. Maybe we can add ID_TYPE=="hid" to the evdev rule. But I first need to try out a few more devices to see if they all have this ID_TYPE. I'll do that later.

Thanks for investigating this already and figuring out that the evdev rule is the cause

[sezanzeb]

Here is my udevadm info output with the xbox 360 controller and a wacom tablet:

inputs.txt

The controller has ID_TYPE=generic unfortunately.

Maybe using ID_PATH!="platform-sound" in the rule does the trick already. I'll try that soon on my computer to test if stuff still works at all.

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ID_PATH!="platform-sound", RUN+="/bin/input-remapper-control --command autoload --device $env{DEVNAME}"

[sezanzeb]

Please try out the pulseaudio-broken branch:

git clone https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper.git
cd input-remapper
git checkout pulseaudio-broken
./scripts/build.sh
sudo apt install ./dist/input-remapper-1.4.2.deb

If that works I'll push it to main and also make a new release