On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 20:32 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 10.08.09 15:22, Renato (rennabh at gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hello, padevchooser won't start: > > > > $ padevchooser > > > > ** (padevchooser:16051): WARNING **: pa_browser_new() failed. > > > > the pulseaudio server is working, and other utilities (pavumenter, > > paprefs) also work ok. > > Could this be somehow gtk related? > > No, how should it? > > Most likely your system simply lacks Avahi. pa_browser_new() is mostly > just a wrapper around that. > > padevchooser/pa_browser_xxx() are obsolete and not supported, you > shouldn't use them anyway. > > Lennart > As an Arch user myself, I can confirm that by default Avahi will not be started up. You just need to add it to your rc.conf. Or start it manually from /etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon start. But don't use padevchooser, as Lennart said. Pavucontrol should have all you need.
