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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 20.11.07 14:14, Kevin Williams (kevkim55 at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> Thanks a lot for the detailed response. I really appreciate it.
> 
> On November 19, 2007 09:58:37 pm Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > My educated guess is that some of your apps use PA natively, others
> > don't but hardcode are configured to use the raw ALSA devices, or raw
> > OSS devices. Now, PA closes all devices after a short time of
> > idle. So, what might happen to you is that you first use a native
> > app. That causes PA top open the device. If you then use a non-native
> > app, then it won't work.  But after the idleness timeout it will
> > suddenly and magically start to work, because PA closed the devices.
> 
> Voila ! That explains the weird behaviour seen with all the apps. But, if the 
> option "exit-idle-time" is responsible then, I don't have it set in 
> daemon.conf !

exit-idle-time is unrelated to this.

The suspend timeout is controlled via the "timeout" parameter of
module-suspend-on-idle.

> The error message I get is "Audio output unavailable. The device is busy. Xine 
> engine parameter:    ". 
> After a while, the error message changes to "xine was unable to 
> initialize any audio drivers" !!
> 
> Any ideas ?

No, unfortunately not. It would be helpful if you could get your hands
on some more verbose Xine debug output, though.

Lennart

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