Urgh, HTML mails... On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 07:49 -0600, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > Does Pulse always start as a daemon, or is it sometimes set up as a > hal/udev item, or something else? Pulseaudio runs as a per-user daemon, if run correctly. This is the same as JACK. It can ALSO be run in 'system-wide' mode but this is not encouraged by the devs for security and efficiency issues. > The goal is to have Jack always run, to have Pulse be the default > non-Jack audio API, to have the .asoundrc send user-level ALSA > requests to Pulse. > > This is working well in my current system load, except when I restart > Jack; when I restart Jack, the following occurs: > * Pulse goes away as far as any apps are concerned, including > Jack and its own diagnostics; > * the default Gnome volume control (set to point at Pulse > via .asoundrc) spontaneously goes away; This is symptomatic of a pulseaudio crash. > * If I try /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart, it says it is not > started; Please DO NOT use /etc/init.d/pulseaudio, this points to system-wide pulse. Start pulseaudio with a simple pulseaudio from the terminal or the like (perhaps from the F2 prompt). > * if I try ps aux | grep pulse , it says that it is started. Most distros have pulse set to autostart, so it would restart itself (as per-user) after crashing if someone tries to access audio. > In my previous load (AVLinux), all I had to do was start jackd > in /etc/rc.local, tell Pulse to use Jack as its sink, and tell Pulse > to daemonize via its own .conf file, and it did very well. I have > tried several methods, including setting Jack and Pulse at different > runlevels, but when I try to use Jack as an /etc/init.d item the boot > jack log says that I don't have permission to use realtime scheduling, > and it doesn't run. > > Help? > > J.E.B. This identical setup works for me. What versions do you have of pulse/jack? Please dump jack1 and use jack2 if you want to work with pulse, there's quite a few fixes (including, coincidentally, one which fixes module-jack-sink/source in pulseaudio crashing the whole daemon). Of course, you need a relatively recent pulse (.16 and newer?). Oh, and I just noticed, please don't run JACK as root either (which is what /etc/init.d does). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
