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

[Kevin Williams]

On November 16, 2007 07:59:35 pm Nix wrote:
> Well it works for me without any of the problems you've mentioned.
>
> Which apps are you seeing this behaviour with? How are they talking to
> the sound system? (ALSA, OSS, native PulseAudio...)


Well, the way I've setup is launch pulseaudio as the systemwide daemon with 
alsa-sink module while ALSA is configured  to use pulseaudio as the default 
driver. 

I have left all the multimedia apps at their default audio setup which happens 
to be auto for most while, I've setup the others to use alsa as the default 
audio driver.

For eg. xine and all the apps using the xine engine use the "auto" setup for 
audio while, I've setup mplayer and avidemux to use alsa.

The above setup works perfectly well, if I stop using pulseaudio and leaving 
alsa as the only audio server. With pulseaudio as the system daemon the 
earlier mentioned problmes start to appear. Almost all the apps complain 
about the audio device being not available.  Amarok also, complains the same 
but, at times it doesn't and there's no sound output though, I can see that 
the file is being played.

I've just setup pulseaudio to launch as per user instance and quite 
surprisingly (or may be not ?), all the apps are working just perfect ! :-)

I guess, the problem lies with pulseaudio running as the system daemon !?

Anyways, thank everyone for your help, I really appreciate it.

Kevin



> On 15 Nov 2007, Kevin Williams uttered the following:
> > On November 15, 2007 05:46:49 am Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >> I'm not 100% sure but with 0.9.7 pa I don't think there are many reasons
> >> to run PA system wide any more. User switching is supported so that
> >> switching from one user to another work pretty well (tho' I have to
> >> admit I've not personally tested this!)
> >
> > Does that mean, a systemwide instance is not recommended and wouldn't
> > work as expected, likely to cause problems ?
>
> Well it works for me without any of the problems you've mentioned.
>
> Which apps are you seeing this behaviour with? How are they talking to
> the sound system? (ALSA, OSS, native PulseAudio...)