On Mon, 17.09.07 00:39, Marc MERLIN (marc_pulse at merlins.org) wrote: > Sorry if this is lacking some details, I got pulseaudio along with the > distro, and only learned about it being there when I realized it was > preventing me from playing audio. > ubuntu comes with pulseaudio 0.9.5-5ubuntu4.1. I doubt that. Last time I checked they ship it, but don't install it by default. > So, why is pulseaudio hanging out to my sound playing devices if it's not able > to play anything? > Shouldn't it just syslog that it can't talk to alsa (it didn't), and then > exit and release my devices? Most likely Ubuntu didn't patch the esd unix socket path in PA to match what they patched it in their esd packages. They use a non-standard path there, so they should do the same in PA. Please report this to the Ubuntu BTS. Thanks, Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
