On 08/07/2009 06:49 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Patrick Shirkey at 07/08/09 07:41 did gyre and gimble: >> yum install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i586 > > First off do you have a 32 bit system or is this a 32 bit library on a > predominantly 64 bit system? > I have Fedora 11 64 bit with a dev version of pulse. I have both the 32 and 64 bit version of the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio library but skype and flash are not able to find the 64 bit version. Hard linking it from /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib doesn't do anything. I enabled mails to my address from the mailing list now so no need to cc. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd >> - I get the same error messages with skype and while playing youtube >> videos in firefox: >> >> socket(): Address family not supported by protocol >> ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: >> Connection refused >> >> - I have added my user as a member of the pulse group. > > The groups should be irrelevant unless you are running in System Wide > mode (which I suspect you are not - it's certainly not the recommended > or default way on Fedora). > > This happens when the libpulse client cannot connect to the server you > are running. Simple tests are using: > > paplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav > aplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav > > This tests a native client and an alsa client using the alsa libraries. > > What I suspect is happening here is that you are running a 64 bit > system and that the above two commands will work fine. > > However, the 32 bit libpulse that is installed on your system is > looking for a different location to communicate with pulseaudio server > (this *has* changed between 0.9.15 and 0.9.16). > > It should just be a matter of building a 32 bit version of libpulse to > go with your git master version. > > If I'm wrong with the assumptions please let us know :) > >> Please cc me on the response. > > Gmane, Gmane, Gmane :p > >
