[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio automatic startup

[Colin Guthrie]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Hmm, I wonder if there are any drawbacks of this way to start PA. Does
> gnome-session still upload the samples correctly if it doesn't start
> esd/PA by itself? It has been a while since I last had a look on the
> g-s source code.
> 
> If that's not a problem, than I might do a similar change on Fedora, too.

Not 100% sure about that one. I certainly get my login sound but I have
been a little confused about not seeing samples in the cache....
although this is no doubt due to me restarting pulseaudio since logging
in (I generally don't log out/in much provided my suspend is behaving..).

I'll let you know.

One other thing for fedora package (not sure if it applies) is ESD
autospawn. I've had to ship a /etc/esd.conf with "auto_spawn=0" in it
otherwise libesound will try to run /usr/bin/esd by default (which is
obviously symlinked to esdcompat). Alternative would be to hack
libesound to make no_autospawn default to 1 but somehow the config file
seemed less hacky and didn't change the defined behaviour of libesound.

I've not looked (stolen) at the fedora rpm for a while so this may not
apply to you but figured it was worth mentioning :)


Col