2010/7/22 Chris <cpollock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:03 +0800, Raymond Yau wrote: > > > > > > 2010/7/22 Chris <cpollock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > > > AFAIK, the most buggy PA client is pavucontrol because > > > > > > 1) it has those vumeters which need to get audio data from > > the > > > playback and capture devices of the sound card , > > > 2) when you move the slider to left ( over 100%) and this > > force PA to > > > provide software gain > > > > > > You should notice that the new gnome-volume-control is > > actually a > > > simplified version of pavucontrol > > > > > > Hmm, I just pulled up PulseAudio Volume Control and see no > > vumeters, I > > can't figure out though why the drive thrashing at various > > times whether > > I have a stream playing or not. > > > > > > Did you click the input device tab page of the gnome volume control ? > > > > The vumeter is "Input level" above the volume control slider ? > > > > You should noticed that the following message appear in the pulseaudio > > log > > > > I: source-output.c : Created output 0 "Peak detect" on alsa_input > > > > I.source-output:c application.id = "org.gnome.volume.control" > > I.source-output:c media.name = "Peak detect" > > I.source-output:c application.name = "GNOME Volume control dialog" > > > > when you using mplayer to play music and open pavucontrol to > > > > pavucontrol sometime abort suddenly when you aborte mplayer but this > > is not 100% reproducible > > > > pavucontrol > > ** ( pavucontrol:3232) : DEBUG: failed to initialize device manager > > extension: No such extension > > ** (pavucontrol:3056) : DEBUG: Ignoring sink-input due to it being > > designated as an event and thuse handled by the event widget > > > > > > The point is after the complete intergration of pulseaudio in to the > > system ( libcanberra, mixer-applet , ... ) > > > > I think "pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio -vvvv" is no longer the correct way > > to debug since there are lots of PA clients running at the desktop > > > > You have to ask the mandriva maintainer how to increase the debug > > level of PA server and have to perform a logout/login to debug the PA > > server > > Thanks Raymond, so I should contact Colin and go from there? I'm not > sure what to even tell him though. I thank you for all your help. > > Chris > There are over 15 PA clients running when you are using gnome desktop running "pulseaudio -k " to shutdown PA server , this kill all the PA clients restart PA server by "pulseaudio -vvvv" , only one or two PA clients (e.g. consolekit, .. ) can connected back to PA server This command "pulseaudio -k;pulseaudio -vvvv" cannot provide a normal environment to debug PA server since most of PA clients are killed _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
