<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> The PA server has yet to deliver sound to my speakers. However, I noticed you had some special advice for someone configuring their M-Audio Delta44... I have an M-Audio Delta 66 and tried your suggestion for the M-Audio Delta 44: -------- So, what you'll have to do is edit /etc/pulse/default.pa. Comment out module-hal-detect and module-detect, and then add these lines (if you don't need the sources, leave them out): # Load Delta 44: load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=delta_out device=hw:0 channels=10 channel_map=left,right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7 load-module module-alsa-source source_name=delta_in device=hw:0 channels=12 channel_map=left,right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7,aux8,aux9 # Set the default sink and source (not mandatory, intel-hda # would probably be used without this): set-default-sink delta_out set-default-source delta_in ----- The PA daemon is not starting and PA Manager is say "connection refused" . Not sure what to make of it, but your suggestions are welcome. Here's some output from /var/log/messages: <blockquote type="cite">pulseaudio[7278]: main.c: Module load failed. pulseaudio[7278]: main.c: failed to initialize daemon. pulseaudio[7288]: pid.c: daemon already running. pulseaudio[7288]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. pulseaudio[7291]: pid.c: daemon already running. pulseaudio[7291]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. pulseaudio[7285]: module-alsa-sink.c: Failed to set hardware parameters: Operation not permitted pulseaudio[7285]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "sink_name=delta_out device=hw:0 channels=10 channel_map=left,right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7"): initialization failed. pulseaudio[7285]: main.c: Module load failed. pulseaudio[7285]: main.c: failed to initialize daemon. pulseaudio[7294]: module-alsa-sink.c: Failed to set hardware parameters: Operation not permitted pulseaudio[7294]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "sink_name=delta_out device=hw:0 channels=10 channel_map=left,right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7"): initialization failed. pulseaudio[7294]: main.c: Module load failed. pulseaudio[7294]: main.c: failed to initialize daemon. </blockquote> Tanu Kaskinen wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20080121201024.GA25554@a9a.mannikko1.tontut.fi" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:49:25PM -0500, Richard Geddes wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thanks for the response. Currently, I'd like to use PA as a replacement for esound... to basically send audio from different programs and from my audio capture card to my audio playback card (capture and playback are on the same card), taking advantage of mixing and syncing features of PA. Sending sound packets out to the network is interesting and I'd like to try that later. Here's the uncommented part of my /etc/pulse/default.pa file: </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> The things that you wrote and pasted to your last message looked a lot like you were experimenting with the rtp modules, so I guess this is a different version of the file? If not, then that would be really strange behaviour (the RTP activity), I think. I haven't played with networking stuff at all myself, though. Anyway, I'll go through the file and give some comments. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">#!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF .ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-hal-detect.so load-module module-hal-detect .else load-module module-detect .endif </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Here you have sound card autodetection set up. I think it's not compatible with the autoload stuff here: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">add-autoload-sink output module-alsa-sink device=hw:0 sink_name=output add-autoload-source input module-alsa-source device=hw:0 source_name=input </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Do you have a hotpluggable sound card, or why are these autoload entries here? module-hal-detect should take care of the hotplugging stuff, so I think the autoload feature is deprecated or for those cases when you do not want to use HAL. I'm not sure about the last statement. Anyway, if you don't have any special reason for these, remove them. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">.ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-esound-protocol-unix.so load-module module-esound-protocol-unix .endif </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> With this line you should have support for esound applications (assuming that the module is installed on the system). You said that you wanted to replace esd. This should achieve that goal (along with the pulseaudio-esound-compat package, be sure to have that installed too). However, with this being the only loaded protocol, now your system doesn't support anything but esound apps. So add "load-module module-native-protocol-unix" too to have better application support. This will allow native pulse clients to connect. If you want support for applications using alsa as the interface (and why wouldn't you?), see the instructions at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications">http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications</a>. Or maybe you've done that already. Rest of the file seemed to be fine. If problems arise, output of pulseaudio -vv will be useful. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>