Jim Duda wrote: > I'm using pulseaudio 0.9.6, on Fedora 7 installed via yum. > I'm current having to start pulseaudio -D manually. > > Three Questions: > 1) Should pulseaudio startup automatically somehow when someone logs into X? > If so, how does this work? I've read all the docs, etc, but haven't found my > answer.
Nope. Even in pa 0.9.9 this isn't handled by pulse directly. There are two methods officially supported (more on this in a bit): 1) Use auto-spawn to automatically launch the pa server when a client tries to connect - this is very flaky and generally not recommenced it seems. 2) Use the /usr/bin/esdcompat method - this involveds removing /usr/bin/esd and replacing it with /usr/bin/esdcompat (e.g. via symlink). This will tell Gnome or Enlightenment to start pulse automatically on login. Personally I prefer to put a script in my /etc/X11/xinit.d folder that runs on login and checks a config file (/etc/sysconfig/pulseaudio) to see if the user has configured pulseaudio auto-startup. This is how I package the Mandriva pulseaudio. > 2) I need to run pulseaudio on some diskless server machines which don't run > X or have anyone login. > As such, I need to run pulseaudio as either a system daemon or some phantom > user. > Is there a recommended approach to starting pulseaudio on a X-less machine, > i.e., rc script? Not really, but it's fairly simple, you can just create a /etc/init.d/ script and start it that way. Phantom user with a suitibly tweaked default.pa to allow IP ACL based connections is probably what you want (that's what I do on a similar setup at work). > 3) I've read in a couple of posts that pulseaudio can be used with an spdif > output. Did that support > start with some version after 0.9.6? Dunno anything about that one, sorry. You should be able to configure the default.pa to use the passthrough alsa device I would have thought tho' (but I'm no expert on spdif generally). HTHs Col _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
