On Sat, 29.08.09 13:08, Nasa (nasa01 at comcast.net) wrote: > > The recommended way to start PA is via > > /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop (for x11 sessions) and > > autospawning (for the console and as extra safety net). > > > > In fact PA upstream installs itself that way out-of-the-box... > > > I am starting the frontend via mingetty/xsession -- so I don't think > the autostart option would work... > > I can start it from xsession -- but it doesn't work. I can't play audio > from anything within the X session, but if I kill the X session I can do a > "pulseaudio --check" and/or play audio -- and both basically work (although > the sound can be cracking some of the time). You are aware that PA is a user daemon? It needs to run as the same user as its clients. > BTW: it seems if pulseaudio dameon isn't started, mplayer will start it any > ways when attempting to play an audio file... Yes, that's what I was referring to above as "autospawning". Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
