[pulseaudio-discuss] Strange problem with pulseaudio 0.9.11

[Rafał Mużyło]

To clarify (as if anybody could have doubts), it was 0.9.11
all the time, it was simply a case of spending too much time
on complaining on 'hal on Gentoo'.

In this attempt I added '--start' to init script parameters,
and the pid problem went away.
The terminating problem seems to come from the fact, that
while docs claim exit-idle-time defaults to -1,
daemon seems to think otherwise.

Now, the next problem is that for some reason alsa plugin doesn't seem
to work.
Let audacious be the test case, then for native pulse output is:
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] client.c: Created 5 "Native client (UNIX
socket client)"
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Got credentials: uid=0
gid=0 success=1
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] module-volume-restore.c: Restoring sink for
<pulsecore/protocol-native.c$Audacious>
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] module-volume-restore.c: Restoring volume
for <pulsecore/protocol-native.c$Audacious>
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] resampler.c: Using resampler 'speex-float-3'
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] resampler.c: Using float32le as working format.
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] resampler.c: Choosing speex quality setting 3.
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Created input 6 "<song name>" on alsa_output.pci_10de_6a_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Requested tlength=250,00 ms, minreq=20,00 ms
Jul 27 14:14:16 [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Final latency 460,00 ms = 210,00 ms + 2*20,00 ms + 210,00 ms
(sound is fine), however if the sound is alsa, output is:
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] client.c: Created 6 "Native client (UNIX
socket client)"
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Got credentials: uid=0
gid=0 success=1
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] module-volume-restore.c: Restoring sink for
<pulsecore/protocol-native.c$ALSA plug-in [audacious]>
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] module-volume-restore.c: Restoring volume
for <pulsecore/protocol-native.c$ALSA plug-in [audacious]>
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] resampler.c: Using resampler
'speex-float-3'
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] resampler.c: Using float32le as working
format.
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] resampler.c: Choosing speex quality setting
3.
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Created input 7 "ALSA
Playback" on alsa_output.pci_10de_6a_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 with
sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Requested tlength=500,00
ms, minreq=100,00 ms
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Final latency 800,00 ms
= 499,95 ms + 2*0,02 ms + 300,00 ms
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Requested tlength=500,00
ms, minreq=100,00 ms
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Freeing input 7 "ALSA
Playback"
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] client.c: Freed 6 "ALSA plug-in
[audacious]"
Jul 27 14:22:43 [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: connection died.
(and no sound).

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