On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 16:00 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > '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 > Isn't it always this way... now that I want to test that it starts working properly every single boot. The next time I see this issue I'll be sure to try unloading/reloading module-gconf. Probably a race condition of some sort.
