Rafa? Mu?y?o wrote: > I spoke too soon. > It was working for some time, but on one of subsequent restarts, > it stopped working again. > The messages were: > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original > dlopen loader. > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Found user 'pulse' (UID 107) and > group 'pulse' (GID 444). > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Successfully dropped root privileges. > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.11 > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /var/run/pulse. > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: yes > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] pid.c: Failed to write PID file. > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. Check the ownership of the pid file in /var/run/pulse... I suspect it is owned by root and the pulse user cannot write it. > And I may have something to add on 'internet radio stream noisy when > module-suspend-on-idle is loaded' topic. > While I can't be sure it's related and can't really test it now (as I > went back to 0.5.10), I got a strange effect in audacious (using native > pulse output, I think). When I started playback, I got some terrible > noise, but the moment I changed the volume, the sound was OK again. > > And is there any way for 0.5.11 to work with wine, cause in my setup, > it works with 0.5.10 (pulseaudio) and 1.1.2 (wine) (well, more or less, > I'm not sure about exact timing, but the sound is good enough), > but if I go to 0.5.11, wine goes into permanent XRUN recovery. > Yes, I know about wine/alsa problems (i.e. api abuse/lack of needed api) > but if there's a way for 0.5.10 to work, there may be a way for > 0.5.11, too. Do you have something against the number 9? It's pulseaudio 0.9.11, not 0.5.11 ;) I've not really tried things like this yet myself but hopefully other users can help :) Col