Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sun, 16.12.07 21:53, Richi Plana (richip at richip.dhs.org) wrote: > >>>> I've two Fedora 8 machines on the network where PA seems to run fine on >>>> each desktop. At least audio comes out through PA as shown by >>>> pavucontrol. I can't, however, see each other (as was demoed by Lennart >>>> in one of his videos). Other than pavucontrol, I don't even know how >>>> else to interact with the PA daemon. >>> Take a look at paprefs, specifically the Network Access tab. >> Thanks for the tip. After installing paprefs, I enabled "network access >> to local sound devices" but the "Allow other machines on LAN to browse >> for local sound devices" remained grey'd out. Suffice it to say, I'm >> not > > If this checkbox is greyed out, then you are missing the zeroconf > plugins for PA. Consider installing the pulseaudio-module-zeroconf package. > >> seeing the local device of the other computer on both computers. I'm >> using pulseaudio-0.9.7 on Fedora 8 on both. Is it too old? > > Yes, in some way. See my previous mail. > >> I'm also noticing an oddity on the two devices. When I enabled >> Multicast/RTP sender on one machine, a virtual sink appeared on the >> Output tab. When I enabled "Simultaenouse output", the simul output >> virtual device appeared. When I did both on the other machine, neither >> virtual output device appeared. Not my main concern right now (getting >> audio to appear on a remote machine is), but I thought I'd mention the >> oddity anyway. > > paprefs require pulseaudio-module-paprefs installed and > activated. Which should be the default. If your packaging hasn't changed since last time I poached from it, I think you mean pulseaudio-module-gconf... Col
