Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and?as?the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 20.11.07 16:55, Kevin Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On November 20, 2007 03:14:47 pm Lennart Poettering wrote: The suspend timeout is controlled via the timeout parameter of module-suspend-on-idle. I commented that line out now and it still doesn't help in anyway !

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-20 Thread Rémi Cardona
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Lennart Poettering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that Gentoo sets up PA this way. This is against my recommendation. Hey now! *I* set it as systemwide, but that's my choice. The ebuild gives you the tools of handling it in any way you want, either as

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-20 Thread David Kågedal
Lennart Poettering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that Gentoo sets up PA this way. This is against my recommendation. The only use case for running PA as system-wide instance is thin clients, where the users using PA are not local. If that's the only focus of Gentoo than great. But the last

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-20 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Lennart Poettering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that Gentoo sets up PA this way. This is against my recommendation. Hey now! *I* set it as systemwide, but that's my choice. The ebuild gives you the tools of handling it in any way you want, either as session instance or systemwide instance.

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 20.11.07 11:46, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Lennart Poettering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that Gentoo sets up PA this way. This is against my recommendation. Hey now! *I* set it as systemwide, but that's my choice. The ebuild gives you the tools

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 20.11.07 12:15, Andrzej Wasowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, David Kågedal wrote: My use case is that I connected the good speakers to my closet server that has no console login. I then want to be able to redirect my laptop streams to the speakers, either using

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as?the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 20.11.07 14:14, Kevin Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks a lot for the detailed response. I really appreciate it. On November 19, 2007 09:58:37 pm Lennart Poettering wrote: My educated guess is that some of your apps use PA natively, others don't but hardcode are

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-20 Thread Colin Guthrie
Kevin Williams wrote: The error message I get is Audio output unavailable. The device is busy. Xine engine parameter:. After a while, the error message changes to xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers !! FWIW, I occasionally get this in Amarok when using the xine+pulse

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 20.11.07 03:49, Lennart Poettering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you use PA this way then local authentication works by membership in the group pulse-rt. What you described sounds like authentication errors. So please make sure that all users who try to access PA are in that group.

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 15.11.07 11:48, Kevin Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On November 15, 2007 05:46:49 am Colin Guthrie wrote: I'm not 100% sure but with 0.9.7 pa I don't think there are many reasons to run PA system wide any more. User switching is supported so that switching from one user to

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 15.11.07 02:05, Kevin Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have installed pulseaudio from the cvs repo and have configure the PA daemon to run as a system wide instance. To ensure all the apps work without needing to configure each of them individually, I have set the pulseaudio

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-16 Thread Kevin Williams
On November 15, 2007 05:46:49 am Colin Guthrie wrote: I'm not 100% sure but with 0.9.7 pa I don't think there are many reasons to run PA system wide any more. User switching is supported so that switching from one user to another work pretty well (tho' I have to admit I've not personally

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
Kevin Williams wrote: I have installed pulseaudio from the cvs repo and have configure the PA daemon to run as a system wide instance. To ensure all the apps work without needing to configure each of them individually, I have set the pulseaudio as the default ALSA plugin in

[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-16 Thread Kevin Williams
I have installed pulseaudio from the cvs repo and have configure the PA daemon to run as a system wide instance. To ensure all the apps work without needing to configure each of them individually, I have set the pulseaudio as the default ALSA plugin in /etc/asound.conf following the guide

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-16 Thread Kevin Williams
On November 15, 2007 06:17:07 am Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: This sounds like a message coming from xine, or at least it is quite similar from the xine message expressing the same problem. If this is the case, make sure that you're not using hw:0 as device in the xine configuration;

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

2007-11-16 Thread Kevin Williams
On November 16, 2007 07:59:35 pm Nix wrote: Well it works for me without any of the problems you've mentioned. Which apps are you seeing this behaviour with? How are they talking to the sound system? (ALSA, OSS, native PulseAudio...) Well, the way I've setup is launch pulseaudio as the