[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio server for playing 32-bit chroot sounds on 64-bit host machine

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 24/04/09 10:42 did gyre and gimble:
> I'm part-way to a solution, but am not sure whether I'm doing things 
> right, please comment.
> 
> Currently, I notice the variables PULSE_SERVER and the like are not set 
> on my Arch Linux install. Setting them did not make a difference, 
> initially, until I did further things.
> 
> Basically, I changed pulseaudio to a system-wide instance (starting as 
> root with --system), copied the /var/run/pulse/.pulse-cookie to 
> /etc/pulse-cookie in the 32-bit chroot, did the appropriate chown to 
> pulse:pulse-access and chmod 640 to the cookie, and was able to play 
> sound using paplay -s localhost. It also works with PULSE_SERVER=localhost.
> 
> As I understand it, what I'm doing is using pulseaudio over a network 
> (though the chroot is actually on the same machine). All I'd have to do 
> now is set the PULSE_SERVER environment variable to get sound working.
> 
> Is this the right way to do it? Seems overly complicated for a 
> single-machine setup to me. Please advise.

I'd very much advise *against* using a system wide pulseaudio. It's only 
really appropriate in certain special circumstances and this isn't one 
of them :)

You should not need to set your PULSE_SERVER env var as it should be 
worked out automatically.

I'd double check Lennart's reply as his comment about ensureing /tmp is 
shared in and out of the chroot is probably the point at which your 
original setup is failing.

Col




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