[pulseaudio-discuss] system wide daemon (war: Re: using pulseaudio with simultaneous playback from mutiple X sessions)

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Colin!

Am Samstag, 12. November 2011 schrieb Colin Guthrie:
> 'Twas brillig, and Martin Steigerwald at 10/11/11 13:59 did gyre and 
gimble:
> > Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2011 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> >> merkaba:/etc> grep autospawn pulse/client.conf
> >> autospawn = no
> >> 
> >> Surprisingly when I do this, a user wide daemon is always
> >> autospawned. This does not match the option name. I will try this
> >> once again after sending out this mail, but I tried two times
> >> already.
> > 
> > This is clearly reproducable.
> > 
> > After a fresh login - no matter whether I use autospawn = no in
> > /etc/pulse/client.conf or /home/martin/.pulse/client.conf or not at
> > all - I get:
> > 
> > martin at merkaba:~> ps aux | grep pulse
> > pulse    21041  0.1  0.0 217932  5568 ?        S<l  14:52   0:00
> > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log-
> > target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=0
> > martin   21500  3.6  0.0 302184  6708 ?        S<l  14:54   0:00
> > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
> > martin   21503  0.0  0.0 194600  4264 ?        Sl   14:54   0:00
> > /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
> > martin   21526  0.0  0.0   9776   920 pts/3    S+   14:54   0:00 grep
> > pulse
> 
> Yeah this is kinda a problem with the XDG startup scripts. PA is not
> being spawned per-se, but rather started at startup via the scripts
> "start-pulseaudio-*" (there are two)
> 
> I've tried to bring this subject up a while ago to get it fixed
> properly, but it's never been quite satisfactorily solved in my
> opinion.
> 
> IMO a per-user PA should refuse to start if a system-wide instance is
> detected, but it does not check this at present.
> 
> The quick and dirty fix is simply to edit the
> /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-* scripts and put and "exit 0" near the top.

Thanks, getting there. Did that and it does the job.

> If you want proper device lists in the Phonon configuration, you should
> also edit your /etc/pulse/system.pa file and put a load-module command
> for module-device-manager with the do_routing argument. This is what
> the start-pulseaudio-kde script does, but as you will be preventing
> this from running with your system-wide daemon, then you will have to
> set it up manually.

This works as well.

Only remaining issue is the low initial volume after logging in to a KDE 
session, although KMix should set the old volume.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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