2011/3/4 ssrk <ssrktce at gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I run Ubuntu 9.10, which by default has pulseaudio and utilities like pactl, > pacmd. > > I downloaded pulseaudio source tarball > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-0.9.22.tar.gz > and extracted it, ran configure script, compiled it and tried to run the > locally built pactl utility. > While running pactl(the one which I built), it gave me "Connection failure: > Connection refused" Error. > But the default 'pactl' utility which is already present in /usr/bin/ works > fine. > > $ ./configure --prefix=<tmpdir> > $ make > $ make install > $ cd <tmpdir> > $ ./bin/pactl stat > Connection failure: Connection refused > > Can someone tell me, what am I missing? > Why is the locally built pactl doesn't work? while the default > /usr/bin/pactl works fine. > Are these utility programs coupled to 'pulseaudio' along with which it is > compiled? Right on the money. You can only use that utility against the pulseaudio daemon of the same version. I think it's due to protocol changes in the native protocol. > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Regards, > ssrk Maarten
