'Twas brillig, and mahendra Deore at 22/06/10 11:42 did gyre and gimble: > I am new to the pulse audio. > I installed pulseaudio-0.9.21/ > as below: > > ./configure --disable-oss-output --disable-oss-wrapper --enable-alsa > --with-system-user=pulse --with-system-group=pulse > --with-access-group=pulse-access > make > make install. FWIW, you should probably use the stable-queue from git if you are building your own, or better yet, use what your distro provides. Configuring PA across all the various bits where audio is uses is a non-trivial task and not something we'd really recommend for casual users. > when i am trying to start pulse audio giving error like > > 1.Start in non system mode:- > > pulseaudio -n --disable-shm=FALSE --disallow-exit=FALSE > --disallow-module-loading=FALSE --load="module-suspend-on-idle" > --load="module-alsa-source" --load="module-alsa-sink" > --load="module-native-protocol-unix" --no-cpu-limit --exit-idle-time=-1 > --high-priority=TRUE --realtime=TRUE > --dl-search-path=/usr/local/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules/ -v & > > O/P:- > # W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless > --system is specified). > I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. > I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.21 > I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes > I: main.c: Machine ID is localhost. > E: core-util.c: Home directory /userdata not ours. Well that's a simple ownership/permissions issue as the error states. Not sure what else to tell you. > 2. Starting in system mode:- > > pulseaudio -n --disable-shm=FALSE --disallow-exit=FALSE > --disallow-module-loading=FALSE --load="module-suspend-on-idle" > --load="module-alsa-source" --load="module-alsa-sink" > --load="module-native-protocol-unix" --no-cpu-limit --exit-idle-time=-1 > --high-priority=TRUE --realtime=TRUE > --dl-search-path=/usr/local/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules/ --system & > > O/P:- > > > pulseaudio -n --disable-shm=FALSE --disallow-exit=FALSE > --disallow-module-load > ing=FALSE --load="module-suspend-on-idle" --load="module-alsa-source" > --load= > "module-alsa-sink" --load="module-native-protocol-unix" --no-cpu-limit > --exit-id > le-time=-1 --high-priority=TRUE --realtime=TRUE > --dl-search-path=/usr/local/lib/ > pulse-0.9.21/modules/ --system & > # W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-exit not set! > W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-module-loading not set! > N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode! > W: main.c: Home directory of user 'pulse' is not > '/usr/local/var/run/pulse', ignoring. > W: main.c: OK, so you are running PA in system mode. Please note that > you most likely shouldn't be doing that. > W: main.c: If you do it nonetheless then it's your own fault if things > don't work as expected. > W: main.c: Please read > http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/WhatIsWrongWithSystemMode for an explanation > why system mode is usually a bad idea. > E: module.c: Module name :- module-suspend-on-idle > E: module.c: Module name :- module-alsa-source > E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: ""): > initialization failed. > E: main.c: Module load failed. > E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. > > > Pulse audio is unable to load the alsa module. That's because you didn't give any arguments to it and it needs some. See: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules I wouldn't generally recommend loading these modules by hand anyway, much better to use udev-detect. BTW, why are you trying to construct the command lines by hand anyway? Are the shipped default.pa and system.pa files not suitable? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
