On Tue, 20.11.07 16:32, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote: > > On 11/20/07, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 20.11.07 21:50, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote: > > > > > > I just have the standard Ubuntu package installed. I would suppose > > > > that whoever made it knew what they were doing. > > > > > > I wouldn't want to speculate about this. > > > > > > > I just spoke to the Ubuntu guys. They have the file > > /etc/default/pulseaudio which can be used to enable system wide > > mode. Most likely you modified that file? > > Looking at it I must have modified it a while ago and forgotten. If > you don't turn > PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1 on, you can't start pulse using > /etc/init.d/pulseaudio and then pulse doesn't start on boot. Editing > that file is the standard way of turning on services in Ubuntu. > > Am I supposed to start it with my Gnome session instead? Yes, PA is normally started as a drop-in replacement for esd. I.e. it provides a compatibility script called "esd" that actually starts PA. All you have to do is to toggle the "Start ESD" checkbox in g-s-p. > What to do is not exactly obvious when installing the package. But afaik the file in /etc/default/ tells you that using the system-wide stuff is not recommended and not what most people would want to use. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
