[pulseaudio-discuss] restarting pulseaudio

[Brendan Jones]

On 09/22/2012 05:31 PM, Richard Bown wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've managed to write a script so I can use an application that uses jackdmp,
> jack2.
> it gets the Alsa card number, and then gets the module number for the module
> for the card I want to use and unloads the module, starts jackd and loads the
> jack-sink and jack-source modules.
> jack-dbus sorta works, it doesn't load the jack sink and source modules, but it
> does unload them when jackd stops, Hence the manual load of the jack sink and
> source modules.
> The minor problem I have is unless I reboot I'm left with 3 of the 4 audio
> devices available with PA.
> restarting PA with --kill and --start does not restore all 4 devices :(
> Is there any way I can restart PA so that it finds all four devices
> dynamically ?
> I'm only running PA V 1.1, which I think is pretty ancient, would it be
> worthwhile for me to download the source code and compile the latest release..
>
> Also :Can jack-sink and one of the alsa sinks be combined ??
>
I believe Rex Dieter has a repo with version 2.0.0 for Fedora 17.

I'm not sure if it will help.

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rdieter/pulseaudio-backport/