'Twas brillig, and Baek Chang at 08/04/11 05:28 did gyre and gimble: > Figured out the problem. I was issuing a PA_SUSPEND_USER on the sink. > This, for some reason, will not resume the sink of a stream is started > up. PA_SUSPEND_IDLE does however. PA_SUSPEND_USER signifies that the User is no longer active. e.g. if the "Login as another user" option is selected in Gnome/KDE. PA very much should not automatically recover from a PA_SUSPEND_USER, it needs to be told when this is OK. On a typical desktop, it's ConsoleKit that dictates this information to us and we listen for what it says with module-console-kit. HTHs 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/]