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

[Colin Guthrie]

Kevin Williams wrote:
> 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" !!

FWIW, I occasionally get this in Amarok when using the xine+pulse
backend. It's probably the same root cause but I've not had enough time
to try and track it down yet either.

Col