[pulseaudio-discuss] Module parameters in 0.9.15

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 12.06.09 11:21, Jan Kasprzak (kas at fi.muni.cz) wrote:

> 	Hello,
> 
> in Fedora 10 (PA 0.9.14) I used to have a virtual soundcards configured
> by the following lines in .pulse/default.pa:
> 
> load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=Speakers device=hw:0 channels=4 channel_map=front-left,front-right,aux0,aux1
> load-module module-remap-sink master=Speakers channels=2 master_channel_map=aux0,aux1 channel_map=front-left,front-right
> 
> This no longer works in Fedora 11 (PA 0.9.15) - it seems that
> "load-module module-alsa-sink" does not want to accept any of the above
> parameters. I have tried even a bare "channels=4", which according to
> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules should be accepted by any device driver
> module. Pulseaudio fails with
> 
> E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "channels=4"): initialization failed.

Before that line there should be an explanation what's going on. Most
likely it's simply that the audio device is blocked already. Try
running PA as "pulseaudio -vvvvv" to find out more.

Lennart

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