[pulseaudio-discuss] padevchooser error

[Renato]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:16:52 +0800
Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 20:32 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Mon, 10.08.09 15:22, Renato (rennabh at gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello, padevchooser won't start:
> > > 
> > > $ padevchooser 
> > > 
> > > ** (padevchooser:16051): WARNING **: pa_browser_new() failed.
> > > 
> > > the pulseaudio server is working, and other utilities (pavumenter,
> > > paprefs) also work ok. 
> > > Could this be somehow gtk related?
> > 
> > No, how should it?
> > 
> > Most likely your system simply lacks Avahi. pa_browser_new() is
> > mostly just a wrapper around that.
> > 
> > padevchooser/pa_browser_xxx() are obsolete and not supported, you
> > shouldn't use them anyway.
> > 
> > Lennart
> > 
> 
> As an Arch user myself, I can confirm that by default Avahi will not
> be started up. You just need to add it to your rc.conf. Or start it
> manually from /etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon start. But don't use
> padevchooser, as Lennart said. Pavucontrol should have all you need.
> 
Aha, thank you, I had forgotten about the avahi-daemon :) 

Renato