[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio passthrough branch doesn't read /etc/pulse/default.pa

[Dark Shadow]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 23/03/11 18:36 did gyre and gimble:
>> 2011/3/21 Dark Shadow <shadowofdarkness at gmail.com>:
>>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Dark Shadow <shadowofdarkness at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I have successfully bitstreamed DTS-HD from xbmc through PA but in
>>>> using the passthrough git branch it doesn't read that config file
>>>> which causes problems for me forcing a sink.
>>>>
>>>> How can I fix this since I have to kill pulseaudio then restart it
>>>> with "pulseaudio --load="module-alsa-sink device=hdmi:1,3"" to get
>>>> hdmi audio working
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am running Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I figured it out, I copied default.pa into ~/.pulse and it works now.
>>> Not preferential in a multi-user environment but it is fine for now.
>>> With the feature of lasting through a distro upgrade.
>>
>> That's a workaround, but pulse still should read the system-wide
>> startup script (note that that is different from the config file) What
>> does pulseaudio --dump-config give?
>
> Am I missing something here... default.pa is the startup script and if
> it exists in ~/.pulse it overrides the one in /etc/pulse/. The
> system-wide one won't be read at all.
>
> Even with the daemon.conf file, the same logic is true (even if it would
> in theory be possible to read both, with the local file overriding the
> system wide one on a setting-by-setting basis)
>
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding tho'....
>
> Col

Pulse stopped reading /etc/pulse before I put the file into ~/.pulse.

Here is everything I did

Install Ubuntu
edit /etc/pulse/default.pa to add my hdmi sink
...everything works for awhile...
update to the passthrough git branch to get dts-hd passthrough with xbmc
my sink is gone and /etc/pulse/default.pa isn't being read
copy just that file into ~/.pulse and the sink starts working again


I don't even have a daemon.conf in ~/.pulse