'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 29/09/10 15:13 did gyre and gimble: > Hi all, > > I've enabled the virtual simultaneous output option in paprefs, and also > the line 'set-default-sink combined' to /etc/pulse/default.pa > > I do not have ~/.pulse/default.pa or any user-specific configuration. > > Whenever I first start Gnome, the simultaneous output is not loaded, and > thus is not set to default. When I 'killall pulseaudio' the next > instance works as I expect (simultaneous output exists and is default). > > Could this have something to do with esdcompat? My gnome-media, > gnome-settings-daemon, and libcanberra are all compiled with pulseaudio > enabled. > > I could of course workaround this by running killall pulseaudio > everytime I boot, but that's not exactly optimal =) I suspect this is something to do with gconf. paprefs just sets some keys in gconf and it's up to module-gconf to actually read and process them. I believe (tho' have not checked) that module-gconf will not wait for gconf itself to be loaded before being considered "loaded" therefore, the set-default-sink combined in default.pa may not work, even if the gconf is available and working. Out of curiosity, does unloading/reloading just module-gconf make the simultaneous output appear? (as opposed to killing the whole of the PA daemon) It's not any more elegant a solution but it does narrow down where the problem lies :D Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
