[pulseaudio-discuss] alsa plugin vs. pulse

[Brad Midgley]

Actually, after a restart, 0.9.7-lennart does show the alsa speaker
device in pavumeter, just not the plugin from default.pa. Maybe it
drops out of the list because ctl_bluetooth is incomplete.

On 10/9/07, Brad Midgley <bmidgley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey
>
> Maybe things aren't mature enough in the new bluez driver.
>
> Under pulse 0.9.6, the headset must be on when starting the server,
> but even so, the server fails. default.pa contains:
>
> load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=bluetooth device=bluetooth
>
> I get:
>
> bmidgley at med:~$ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --log-target=syslog
> -Lmodule-esound-compat-spawnfd fd=24
> ALSA lib ctl_bluetooth.c:150:(bluetooth_send_ctl) Unable to request
> new volume value to server: Socket operation on non-socket
> Segmentation fault
>
> but using Lennart's branch, I can launch the volume control from
> padevchooser but in the sinks tab it says "No sinks available"
>
> On the second machine, I didn't replace padevchooser or pavumeter from
> svn; hope that's ok. They are from gutsy. If they do need replacement,
> I'm not sure what svn module to look for.
>
> Brad
>