Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Sunday 19 December 2021 03:18:46 am Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 18 dec 21, 11:24:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > > > There remains the sound issue in the virtualbox. Could it be that > > > Debian isn't running PulseAudio but something else? That would > > > account for the guest OS not being able to talk to it... > > > > As far as I'm aware there is no default sound server in Debian, it's > > whatever the corresponding Desktop Environment depends on. Usually this > > is PulseAudio, but it seems PipeWire is becoming more popular. > > Well, sound on the Debian side of things works, as in playing youtube > videos and such. It doesn't work in the Slackware virtualbox, which is > apparently trying to connect to Pulseaudio. Going through the Xfce > application menus just now I see very little that would tell me what it is > that's actually running here, so I figure I probably need to typs something > on the command line in a terminal, but I don't know what. > > One thing that shows up in the Xfce application menu under multimedia is > "Pulseaudio Volume Control". When I invoke this a small window pops up, > with the text "Establishing connection to Pulseaudio. Please wait" and then > nothing happens, even if I let it sit there for quite a while. > > Suggestions as to where I might look for the problem?
In general, that message means that even if there is a copy of the pulseaudio daemon running, it is not running with the right userid and the X11 session you are running in doesn't know about it. Run "pulseaudio --start" and try again. -dsr-
