Colin Guthrie wrote: > Scott Castaline wrote: >> Just installed the latest from source (git) and after going through >> removing what was installed by Fedora and then installing all of the >> required dependencies and the downloaded version from git. > > OK, good so far. > >> It appeared >> to be working, however my system sound on login doesn't play. > > There could be many reasons for this. > >> When I >> open the sound test gui from preferences I noticed that PulseAudio is >> not any of the choices, and none of the tests work. > > What is this application? Do you mean gstreamer-properties? If so you > don't have the gstreamer pulseaudio package installed. gnome-sound-properties > >> When I go to the tab >> for system sounds they all work fine when I "play" them. Rhythmbox seems >> to work although I'll believe it after a few days of nonstop use. Due to >> the tests in the gui failing, I'm wondering if the audio is actually >> going through PulseAudio or is it just going through the ALSA driver(s). > > Just look in pavucontrol. It's quite obvious whether a given stream is a > direct pulse client or a alsa one as the latter have "[alsa]" in their name! > Playback has nothing Output Devices has Null Output Input Devices has HDA ATI SB - ALC882 Analog >> When I do a ps -ef | grep pulseaudio I get: scott 3135 1 0 >> 07:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start, so I'm assuming >> that it is starting. >> >> I have also run the sound config gui from the cli command >> "gnome-sound-properties", and get the following when I test Sound >> playback which is normally set to Autodetect I get the following response: >> sound-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'audiotestsrc wave=sine >> freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink': Resource not >> found. [gstjackaudiosink.c(427): gst_jack_ring_buffer_open_device (): >> /autoaudiosink0-actual-sink-jackaudio: >> Cannot connect to the Jack server (status 17)] > > This is due to your preferences as set in gstreamer-preferences. You've > told it that you want to use jacksink as your preferred device. > I now am getting errors when I test the audio output in gstreamer-properties; gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'PulseAudio Sound Server': Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument [pulsesink.c(399): gst_pulsesink_prepare (): /pipeline1/pulsesink2] It works fine if I select the ALSA plugin. >> So can someone tell me is pulsaudio is running? If not, what am I >> missing? Can I fix it, and how? > > Well pulse is clearly running as you can see it in ps. If you can > connect to it with pavucontrol and see stream listed then it's actually > *working* as well as just running! :p > > Col > > >
