On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:52:32PM -0500, Richard Geddes wrote: > The PA daemon is not starting and PA Manager is say "connection refused" > . Not sure what to make of it, but your suggestions are welcome. "Connection refused" is the message you get when trying to use a pulse client program without having the daemon running. > Here's some output from /var/log/messages: > > > pulseaudio[7278]: main.c: Module load failed. > > pulseaudio[7278]: main.c: failed to initialize daemon. > > pulseaudio[7288]: pid.c: daemon already running. > > pulseaudio[7288]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > > pulseaudio[7291]: pid.c: daemon already running. > > pulseaudio[7291]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > > pulseaudio[7285]: module-alsa-sink.c: Failed to set hardware > > parameters: Operation not permitted > > pulseaudio[7285]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" > > (argument: "sink_name=delta_out device=hw:0 channels=10 > > channel_map=left,right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7"): > > initialization failed. > > pulseaudio[7285]: main.c: Module load failed. > > pulseaudio[7285]: main.c: failed to initialize daemon. > > pulseaudio[7294]: module-alsa-sink.c: Failed to set hardware > > parameters: Operation not permitted > > pulseaudio[7294]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" > > (argument: "sink_name=delta_out device=hw:0 channels=10 > > channel_map=left,right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7"): > > initialization failed. > > pulseaudio[7294]: main.c: Module load failed. > > pulseaudio[7294]: main.c: failed to initialize daemon. The "Failed to set hardware parameters: Operation not permitted" is an encrypted message, and means that pulseaudio couldn't open the device for 16-bit samples, because the device only supports 32-bit samples. You seem to have an older version of pulseaudio. Since 0.9.8 pulseaudio has supported 32-bit samples, so you'll have to upgrade to at least that version. An unrelated note: you seem to have made the decision to run pulseaudio as a system-wide daemon. That is not generally recommended way to run pulseaudio, it's only for the cases when the per-user way just doesn't cut it. This isn't a fatal mistake (if it's mistake at all, I don't know what kind of setup you actually have/need), and you don't necessarily need to fix it. Some information on this matter: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/SystemWideInstance -- Tanu Kaskinen
