Hi, Just a bit of background first. I've just rewired my house and in doing so I've put in 8 ceiling speakers. 2 in the bedroom. 2 in the dining room and 4 in the lounge room. These are connected to 2 car amplifiers ( 4 channels each ) and then into two Audigy sound cards in my server. I plan on using rhythmbox, running on my laptop, to pipe sound into which ever room I'm in. Also watch movies in the lounge, again using the laptop and a flat panel display, or perhaps later a home theatre PC. So currently I'm learning how to set up pulse audio and ALSA. It taken some persistance but I think I'm starting to understand. I'm using the following configuration and have run into a few problems ( see below ): #!/usr/local/bin/pulseaudio -nF .fail load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=lounge device=surround40:CARD=CA0106_1 channels=4 load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=dining device=front:CARD=CA0106 load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=bedroom device=rear:CARD=CA0106 load-module module-native-protocol-unix load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=192.168.42.10;192.168.42.3 load-module module-zeroconf-publish load-module module-volume-restore #load-module module-default-device-restore load-module module-rescue-streams load-module module-suspend-on-idle The first problem is with moving streams. Whenever rhythmbox changes to the next track. The new track moves back to the default location. I suspect rhythmbox is closing and reopening it's connection? Any sugestions? The second problem is glitchy playback when I run rhythmbox on my laptop ( over wifi ). Are there some buffering options I could try? Ping times appear well behaved, so I'm not sure what is going on here 28 packets transmitted, 28 received, 0% packet loss, time 27462ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.225/2.455/3.358/0.254 ms A third problem. When compiling 0.9.10, the configure script didn't detect that I didn't have libtool-ltdl-devel (that's what F9 calls it) installed. A fourth thing I'm trying to work out is how to give the output devices nice names in pavucontrol et. al. As you can see from my config, I've tried sink_name. Fifth, I'm seeing this output from pulseaudio. However, I'm not sure how to create a control device. Also, could the absence of a control device be responsible for my glitchy playback over wifi? W: alsa-util.c: Device (null) doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz. ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL surround40:CARD=CA0106_1 W: alsa-util.c: Device (null) doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz. ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:CARD=CA0106 W: alsa-util.c: Device (null) doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz. ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL rear:CARD=CA0106 Thanks, Russell
