Hi all,<br><br>I installed pulseaudio on my Feisty test partition, the purpose of this partition is to test a setup that will become my future standard one.<br><br>Pulseaudio works basically out of the box (ie with mplayer). Alsa works as well using pulse as default pcm, using the following /etc/asound.conf
<br><br><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">pcm.pulse {</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> type pulse</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">}</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">ctl.pulse {</span>
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> type pulse</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">}</span>
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">pcm.!default {</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
type pulse</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">}</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">ctl.!default {</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> type pulse</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">} </span></font><br><br>I also setted up pulse in gstreamer using gstreamer-properties, so that all my gstreamer apps like totem, rhythmbox, etc work using directly pulse.
<br><br>I have only one problem left: ESD, it doesn't work neither using esdplay or any other apps<br><br><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" size="1">matteo@burnt:~$ esdplay startup.wav <br>esdplay: pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
<br>Usage:program_name [address][:port]Aborted<br>matteo@burnt:~$ mplayer -ao esd startup.wav <br>MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu7 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team<br>CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8)
<br>CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1<br>Compiled with runtime CPU detection.<br>Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory<br>Can't init input joystick<br>mplayer: could not connect to socket
<br>mplayer: No such file or directory<br>Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.<br><br>Playing startup.wav.<br>Audio file file format detected.<br>==========================================================================
<br>Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder<br>AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400)<br>Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)<br>==========================================================================
<br>[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: No child processes<br>Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.<br>Usage:program_name [address][:port]Audio: no sound<br>Video: no video<br><br><br>Exiting... (End of file)
</font><br><br>Of course I followed the pulseaudio perfect setup guide..<br><br><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" size="1">$ vdir /usr/bin/esd
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Mar 8 14:28 /usr/bin/esd -> /usr/bin/esdcompat
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$ cat /etc/pulse/default.pa | grep esound
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.ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-esound-protocol-unix.so
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### Load esound protocol
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load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
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$ gconftool -g /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosink
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pulsesink
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$ gconftool -g /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc
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pulsesrc</font>
<br><br>.. with no joy<br><br>Can you help me solving this? Esound works on my standard edgy partition and works in feisty if I sound the esound package, Why isn't it working with pulseaudio?<br>This also causes some apps to be really slow.. I believe they're trying to trigger some sounds (gnome sounds of course do not work) so they are somehow stuck because of esd broken.
<br><br>Pulseaudio and esound configuration files attached.<br>Thanks,<br>Matteo<br>