[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio error message

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 08/07/2009 11:53 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>
> It's worth noting (as I alluded to earlier) that the 0.9.15 and the 
> 0.9.16 have a *known* incompatibility with regards to how they look 
> for the socket path to communicate with the pulseaudio daemon.
>
> If you run start-pulseaudio-x11 and get some results when doing:
> xprop -root| grep PULSE_SERVER
>
> then this should be enough to work around this incompatibility 
> (although I've not tested this).
>

- I get this:

PULSE_SERVER(STRING) = 
"{hostname}unix:/home/username/.pulse/hostname-runtime/native"

Where hostname is the actual hostname of this machine and username is 
the actual username.

- I have retested with firefox and flash is not happy.  Due to that I 
have retested the flash-plugin. The native package which is 32 bit will 
not load into firefox since I have installed the pulse 32 bit libs and 
run the start-pulseaudio-x11.  I have manually installed the 64 bit 
libflashplayer and flash will load in firefox but still no sound through 
pulseaudio.

I now get this error:

ALSA lib pcm.c:2162:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

I have these packages installed:

Package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.20-2.fc11.i586 already installed and 
latest version
Package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.20-2.fc11.x86_64 already installed 
and latest version

and the /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so is in place.


- Is there a simple commandline app that I can test with that will save 
the hassle of having to test with firefox and skype at this stage?



Cheers.





Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd