<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 08/07/2009 06:58 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1249635506.32542.41.camel@jarl" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, Forgot to CC you, so here's a copy in private of the mail I sent to the PulseAudio mailing list: pe, 2009-08-07 kello 16:41 +1000, Patrick Shirkey kirjoitti: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, I have repeatedly had the following error message after installing the following package: yum install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i586 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Doesn't Fedora come with pulseaudio preinstalled, along with the alsa plugin? </pre> </blockquote> Yes it has v-0.9.15 but I am running a comprehensive set of test to find out just how stable the pulse + jack integration is and while I have been looking into things over the past two days I have ended up with the latest pulse dev from git in order to get it to be relatively stable with jack on my system. I am sending a complete report to the LAU list. <blockquote cite="mid:1249635506.32542.41.camel@jarl" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""></pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">- I get the same error messages with skype and while playing youtube videos in firefox: socket(): Address family not supported by protocol ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> "Connection refused" almost certainly means that pulseaudio wasn't running at the time connecting was tried. But the default install should autospawn the server on demand. Since you don't seem to have a default configuration, it would be useful to tell what changes you have made. </pre> </blockquote> I have been running pulse with module-jack-sink./source and module-alsa-sink/source.  In both cases I get teh same errors from skype and flash. Without the 32 bit version of the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio lib I get these messages: ====================================== $ skype ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so ====================================== With  the lib installed I get: ============ socket(): Address family not supported by protocol ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused ============ <blockquote cite="mid:1249635506.32542.41.camel@jarl" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""></pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">- I have added my user as a member of the pulse group. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> The pulse group is the group that the system mode runs under. Adding yourself to the group does nothing. If and only if you use the system mode, then adding yourself to the pulse-access group is useful. </pre> </blockquote> Added my user to pulse-access and logout/login but flash is still playing directly through alsa. <blockquote cite="mid:1249635506.32542.41.camel@jarl" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Almost everything I have found online says to disable pulseaudio which is not at all what I want to do. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I don't use either Skype or Flash myself, but I believe the situation is such that Flash 10 should work fine (I think Youtube might work with free alternatives too: gnash and/or swfdec), whereas Skype doesn't work well with PulseAudio. </pre> </blockquote> To be clear I can use both skype and flash and no doubt any other app that has the same method of interacting with the alsa layer directly through alsa as long as no other app is playing through pulse audio or jack is not running. My goal is to be able to have flash, skype, realplayer, etc... running over pulseaudio and pulseaudio running over jack. I'm close but not there yet. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd </pre> </body> </html>