Hi Colin! Am Samstag, 12. November 2011 schrieb Colin Guthrie: > 'Twas brillig, and Martin Steigerwald at 10/11/11 13:59 did gyre and gimble: > > Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2011 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > >> merkaba:/etc> grep autospawn pulse/client.conf > >> autospawn = no > >> > >> Surprisingly when I do this, a user wide daemon is always > >> autospawned. This does not match the option name. I will try this > >> once again after sending out this mail, but I tried two times > >> already. > > > > This is clearly reproducable. > > > > After a fresh login - no matter whether I use autospawn = no in > > /etc/pulse/client.conf or /home/martin/.pulse/client.conf or not at > > all - I get: > > > > martin at merkaba:~> ps aux | grep pulse > > pulse 21041 0.1 0.0 217932 5568 ? S<l 14:52 0:00 > > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log- > > target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=0 > > martin 21500 3.6 0.0 302184 6708 ? S<l 14:54 0:00 > > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start > > martin 21503 0.0 0.0 194600 4264 ? Sl 14:54 0:00 > > /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper > > martin 21526 0.0 0.0 9776 920 pts/3 S+ 14:54 0:00 grep > > pulse > > Yeah this is kinda a problem with the XDG startup scripts. PA is not > being spawned per-se, but rather started at startup via the scripts > "start-pulseaudio-*" (there are two) > > I've tried to bring this subject up a while ago to get it fixed > properly, but it's never been quite satisfactorily solved in my > opinion. > > IMO a per-user PA should refuse to start if a system-wide instance is > detected, but it does not check this at present. > > The quick and dirty fix is simply to edit the > /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-* scripts and put and "exit 0" near the top. Thanks, getting there. Did that and it does the job. > If you want proper device lists in the Phonon configuration, you should > also edit your /etc/pulse/system.pa file and put a load-module command > for module-device-manager with the do_routing argument. This is what > the start-pulseaudio-kde script does, but as you will be preventing > this from running with your system-wide daemon, then you will have to > set it up manually. This works as well. Only remaining issue is the low initial volume after logging in to a KDE session, although KMix should set the old volume. Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
