On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:00:26AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > 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. Mmmh, maybe it got pulled in by some dependency. > > 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. Argh. Can you give me a very quick version of what it can/should be and in which files? I can likely patch that (binary edit or symlinks) > Please report this to the Ubuntu BTS. Will do, once I know which files are wrong and what they should be :) Thanks Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/