[pulseaudio-discuss] Starting PulseAudio using SystemD

Vallabha Hampiholi vallabha.pa at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 1 19:17:30 PDT 2011


Hello Tanu,

I am planning to run PulseAudio is system-wide mode.

Service startup is done by another colleague and he faced some issue with
regards to loading alsa sink module (system.pa) with hardcoded parameters
hw:0,0.

But it works fine when PulseAudio is started the regular way.

-Rgds
Vallabha

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 19:12 +0530, Vallabha Hampiholi wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Can anyone point me to the exact steps to be followed to start PulseAudio
> > using SystemD?
>
> Could you be more specific? Are you planning to run Pulseaudio in the
> system-wide mode or in the per-user mode? In per-user mode I don't think
> there's anything special in systemd - per-user daemons are not handled
> by the init program, be it SysV init or systemd or anything else.
>
> If you plan to use the system-wide mode, then perhaps someone can tell
> how they have set up their system-wide Pulseaudio in a systemd-based
> environment. It's entirely possible that nobody has done that yet,
> though, given that systemd is a new thing and the system-wide mode is
> recommended against. Have you read the systemd documentation, though?
> I'd imagine that it's not rocket science to write the needed
> configuration to launch "pulseaudio --system" at boot...
>
> --
> Tanu
>
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