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

[Gene Kodadek]

On Monday, February 14, 2011 08:58:39 AM Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> 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?
> 
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Yes, I understand that the daemon is already running, what I'm not sure of is 
how to proceed from here. I've followed all the instructions to the best of my 
ability, but I'm obviously doing something very wrong.