[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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Another question: after I'd uninstalled all of the pulseaudio related 
software, ditched all of the config files, and reverted all my settings, 
something was still writing a .pulse and .pulse-cookie directory and file to my 
~ directory. It caused some problems. Any idea what program might have been 
doing that?