I found the problem with pacmd. Stupid me! I called the system one and not the one I built. Nevertheless, I am interested in the debugging magic. Burkhard 2010/1/2 Burkhard Stubert <burkhard.stubert at googlemail.com> > Hi Colin > > 2010/1/2 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> > > 'Twas brillig, and Burkhard Stubert at 02/01/10 14:50 did gyre and gimble: >> > Hi folks, >> > >> > I have built PA v0.9.21 and installed it in /usr/local/PulseAudio. I >> > have changed my configuration files as follows. >> > >> > ~/.pulse/client.conf: >> > daemon-binary = /usr/local/PulseAudio/bin/pulseaudio >> > extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog >> > >> > /usr/bin/pulse-session: >> >> The above file is not one we provide, so is presumably something your >> distro is doing. I'm not aware of how this works so cannot provide any >> help here. I'd advise you to ask via your distro's PA maintainer. >> >> > If I now run /pacmd "list-modules"/, I get the message: >> > No Pulseaudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. >> > >> > What is wrong in my setup? How do I have to configure things to run the >> > pulseaudio instance I have compiled myself? >> >> pacmd is probably linking to your system's libpulse* libraries. >> >> Maybe export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/PulseAudio/lib will solve the >> problem? >> > > Nope, pacmd is linked against the libraries in /usr/local/PulseAudio/lib - > as ldd revealed. > > >> Note also that for debugging (which is presumably what you are doing) >> that pulseaudio has some small black magic that allows it to be run from >> the source/build tree without installing. This may be a simpler way for >> quick tests and building a test package in your distros chosen format >> (rpm or deb etc) may be a better approach for a longer term test? >> > > Yes, I am indeed debugging. I want to make my Linux box work as a Bluetooth > stereo headset. Could you please initiate me to the black magic for > debugging. > > Thanks, > Burkhard > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20100102/1f25c43e/attachment.htm>
