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

[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 "Perfect Setup". 

PA lauches without any problems. But, the problem shows up when I launch any 
of the multimedia apps. Sometimes, I see a message which says "Audio device 
not available. May be it is in use by another application". I'm pretty sure, 
there're no other apps at that same time yet, I receive those messages, don't 
know why !??

The message box reapppears a bunch of times and each time I click OK to 
dismiss it. After that, the app starts working happily. Again, when it comes 
to changing media (track or CD), sometimes the annoying message box is 
displayed again. This time though, it is less likely to work. The only way to 
get it working is to terminate the app and relaunch it.

Amarok, also displays the same message a bunch of times repeatedly and starts 
working for a while. After a while, it just stops and doesn't respond. The 
same this happens when, I hit the Next or Previous button. Sometimes, amarok 
starts playing, but there's no sound output !! Only way out is to kill the 
app and relaunch... !

Any help in thie regard will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

Kevin