Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Loading module-null-sink when no real sinks found.

2008-03-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 12.03.08 01:29, Colin Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > OK, I've implemented the first draft of this idea. > > It works OK (well, doesn't seem to crash!) but has a couple issues. > > If it's loaded at startup and no other sinks are created, it will > automatically create a null-sink f

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Loading module-null-sink when no real sinks found.

2008-03-12 Thread Colin Guthrie
Colin Guthrie wrote: > The other way round seems to work fine, e.g. starting playing with a > real sink, and removing the said sink, a null-sink is automatically > loaded and the recover-streams kicks in and works. I think I'll revise that and say the other way round is *better* but I have now had

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Loading module-null-sink when no real sinks found.

2008-03-12 Thread Colin Guthrie
Lennart Poettering wrote: > Hmm, I thought of something like this before, however I am not sure if > I really like the idea. It hides bugs and misconfiguration and might > confuse people even more. (i.e. "mum, my music is playing, but I don't > hear nothing, regardless how much I play around with t

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Loading module-null-sink when no real sinks found.

2008-03-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sat, 08.03.08 00:22, Colin Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > While I've been using virtualbox, this could be useful on any system > without built in sound (or if it's just disabled) to which you > subsequently plugin USB sound device. Sound could play to no where and > when a real device is

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Loading module-null-sink when no real sinks found.

2008-03-11 Thread Colin Guthrie
OK, I've implemented the first draft of this idea. It works OK (well, doesn't seem to crash!) but has a couple issues. If it's loaded at startup and no other sinks are created, it will automatically create a null-sink for you. You can play sound and as soon as you add another sink (could be your

[pulseaudio-discuss] Loading module-null-sink when no real sinks found.

2008-03-07 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi, I've been running into some problems testing Mandriva One KDE 2008.1 RC1 (live CD). I've been using VirtualBox and the default setup is to not include any sound hardware, so when the system boots pulseaudio starts fine but module-hal-detect (unsurprisingly) doesn't find anything and no sinks