[pulseaudio-discuss] Trying to get Pukseaudio playing nice with KDE 4.6 on Arch Linux

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 18:36 -0600, Gene Kodadek wrote:
> On Sunday, February 13, 2011 07:52:37 PM Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > 'Twas brillig, and Gene Kodadek at 13/02/11 19:19 did gyre and gimble:
> > > All right, here goes. Here are the steps I took:  after starting Jack:
> > > 
> > > 1) pulseaudio -vvvv
> > > 2) start-pulseaudio-x11
> > > 3) start-pulseaudio-kde
> > > 4) loaded jack modules (got an error message telling me they were
> > > already
> > > loaded)
> > 
> > > Here is the verbose output from that whole mess:
> > I don't see any mention of the jack modules in the PA verbose output there.
> > 
> > As no other sinks are available (udev-detect is run and detects your
> > alsa cards, but as jackd is running and has the cards open already, it
> > correctly reports the alsa devices as "busy" and thus doesn't create
> > sinks/sources for them directly), the "dummy output" is automatically
> > loaded but obviously as the name suggests, the sound effectively goes to
> > /dev/null.
> > 
> > Can you post the error messages you get from and the commands you use to
> > load the jack modules (basically step 4 in your list)?
> > 
> > That should help to debug further.
> > 
> > For the benefit of yourself and Tanu, the screens in Phonon should look
> > a little like the screenshots here: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE
> > 
> > Col
> 
> [gene at bruce ~]$ pulseaudio -L module-jack-sink -L module-jack-source
> E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
> E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

<Rant warning>

You're an Arch Linux user. Does it not occur to you that 'daemon already
running' means exactly what it says?