On 12/28/2010 03:38 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Peter Hercek<phercek at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I looked at this better today and found out that the reason the loopback >> sound stops is that the pulseaudio servers exits. It thinks it is idle. It >> looks like when some sounds go over loopback (or pavumeter) it is not >> considered a usefull work (the message was: "core.c: We are idle, >> quitting..."). But when some sounds go from some other apllication (like >> e.g. xmms) or when pavucontrol is running then it is considered a usefull >> work and the server does not get idle. This looks like a bug to me. >> Streaming sounds over loopback is definitely usefull work for me. >> Should this be reported as a bug? >> Is there some workaround, some way to make pulseaudio server not to detect >> idling? > One thing to try would be to rename your .pulse folder and relogin and > see if it still occurs. Probably not the problem but I reported a > crash last year when I tried to load the loopback module. It turns out > that since I had upgraded a couple of times (Fedora 8, 10, 12) that > some configuration cruft built up that the newer version of Pulse > didn't like. Renaming .pulse did not help. My problem is probably somehting different. Peter.
