Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Fri, 01.02.08 14:44, Jim Duda (jim at duda.tzo.com) wrote: > >> I'm using pulseaudio 0.9.6, on Fedora 7 installed via yum. >> I'm current having to start pulseaudio -D manually. >> >> Three Questions: >> 1) Should pulseaudio startup automatically somehow when someone logs into X? >> If so, how does this work? I've read all the docs, etc, but haven't >> found my answer. > > The idea is to run PA from gnome-session via its compatiblity script > "esdcompat" which is linked to /usr/bin/esd. To make this work you > have to enable the ESD check box in the gnome sound properties > however. For new installations this is enabled by default. On experimentation in Mandriva we've found a few problems with the launching via esdcompat. As pulse takes longer to initialise than esd did, the timeouts for starting "esd" are no longer accurate and this leads to a few issues (e.g. login sound not playing etc.). One super fast hardware this is not a major issue but for a lot of ppl it is. We found that by using xinit.d to start pulse (which also works for all desktops, not just Gnome & E) it was more reliable and even if esdcompat was run by gnome-session, pulse had already initialised and all was well. YMMV but I thought I'd report it back. Col
