'Twas brillig, and Franz Glauber at 01/03/11 11:16 did gyre and gimble: > Hi Daniel! > > Thanks for the help, but it doesn't seem to be the issue here. What > happens is that whenever I try to open any PA control interface, it > freezes while waiting for some reply from the device and then it fails > with a Timeout or such. That is exactly what happened while trying to > issue those commands: > > $ pactl load-module module-loopback source="alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2" > sink="bluez_sink.88_88_00_B9_CC_DD" > <30-second wait> > Connection fail: Timeout (translated this back to english, not sure if > the message is this... Are you doing this via an SSH connection? If so, make sure you unset $DISPLAY or use ssh -x 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/]