On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:49:25PM -0500, Richard Geddes wrote: > Thanks for the response. > > Currently, I'd like to use PA as a replacement for esound... to > basically send audio from different programs and from my audio capture > card to my audio playback card (capture and playback are on the same > card), taking advantage of mixing and syncing features of PA. Sending > sound packets out to the network is interesting and I'd like to try that > later. > > Here's the uncommented part of my /etc/pulse/default.pa file: The things that you wrote and pasted to your last message looked a lot like you were experimenting with the rtp modules, so I guess this is a different version of the file? If not, then that would be really strange behaviour (the RTP activity), I think. I haven't played with networking stuff at all myself, though. Anyway, I'll go through the file and give some comments. > #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF > > .ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-hal-detect.so > load-module module-hal-detect > .else > load-module module-detect > .endif Here you have sound card autodetection set up. I think it's not compatible with the autoload stuff here: > add-autoload-sink output module-alsa-sink device=hw:0 sink_name=output > add-autoload-source input module-alsa-source device=hw:0 source_name=input Do you have a hotpluggable sound card, or why are these autoload entries here? module-hal-detect should take care of the hotplugging stuff, so I think the autoload feature is deprecated or for those cases when you do not want to use HAL. I'm not sure about the last statement. Anyway, if you don't have any special reason for these, remove them. > .ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-esound-protocol-unix.so > load-module module-esound-protocol-unix > .endif With this line you should have support for esound applications (assuming that the module is installed on the system). You said that you wanted to replace esd. This should achieve that goal (along with the pulseaudio-esound-compat package, be sure to have that installed too). However, with this being the only loaded protocol, now your system doesn't support anything but esound apps. So add "load-module module-native-protocol-unix" too to have better application support. This will allow native pulse clients to connect. If you want support for applications using alsa as the interface (and why wouldn't you?), see the instructions at http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications. Or maybe you've done that already. Rest of the file seemed to be fine. If problems arise, output of pulseaudio -vv will be useful. -- Tanu Kaskinen
