[pulseaudio-discuss] flushing dynamically loaded modules

[Richard Bown]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:43:23 +0300
Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:

> Please keep the mailing list in the recipients.
> 
> On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 18:57 +0100, Richard Bown wrote:
> > > How do you load the jack modules? There's certainly no tmp file storing
> > > the jack module configuration, so if you have loaded them just with
> > > pactl, restarting pulseaudio will clear the configuration.
> > 
> > I'm loading them from a shell script when starting the app that uses jackd
> > after starting jackd.
> > Strange that killing pulse and restarting is clearing them, I'll did further
> > and see if I can find out why.
> 
> What's strange about that? I said that restarting pulseaudio clears the
> configuration, and now you think that it's somehow strange that it
> happens?

Sorry that's me being not clear. What I meant to say its strange after they are
cleared when PA is killed that restarting the daemon is a problem.
Its either not starting after jackd is killed and the modules unloaded, or
starting and stopping straight away, the volume control icon on the panel is
switching off and on.

Also running pulseaudio -D, gives no indication that the daemon is not
starting, but pulseaudio --kill is saying no process running.

Whatever is stopping the daemon from restarting is not cleared by logging out,
but is by rebooting.
There is a sym link from a file in .pulse to /tmp , any idea what that is as
that probably goes on a reboot ????
> 
> From your other message:
> 
> On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 19:13 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: 
> > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:35:39 +0300
> > Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
> > 
> > > How is that a problem? I mean, I know that it's a bit cumbersome to dig
> > > out the indexes with "pactl list modules" (the next pulseaudio release
> > > will support giving module name instead of index, yay!), but from your
> > > description I don't get why requiring an index would prevent you from
> > > unloading the modules.
> > 
> > Quick question Tanu
> > 
> > is the index number of the module always the same ?
> > ie jack sink and source 31 & 32 ???
> > 
> > or are they dynamic, changing each time pulse is started, they seem fixed,
> > but I'm not sure.
> 
> They are dynamic, so don't trust them staying the same. The indexes are
> assigned sequentically in the order the modules are loaded.
> 
> > thanks, sorry to be a pest
> 
> No problem at all :)
> 



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