'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 14/09/11 17:06 did gyre and gimble: > On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 20:44 +0530, Vinod wrote: >> I have started the pulseaudio in --system mode and trying to use >> module-loopback for bluetooth A2DP. >> but pacmd doesnt work in system mode and hence I am not able to get >> the bluetooth source. >> >> I have 2 questions, >> 1. Is there any way to find the bluetooth source when pulseaudio is >> running in --system mode. >> 2. Can I use module-loopback for A2DP when pulseaudio is in --system mode, >> >> When I started the pulseaudio in session mode I got the bluetooth >> source using pacmd utility. >> I want same when I am in system mode. > > Instead of pacmd, you can use pactl. "pactl list" will dump a lot of > information, and device names will be included in that. > > If you're using module-bluetooth-discover, then you'll also need to > enable module loading for bluetooth to work (module loading is disabled > by default in the system mode for security reasons). That's also needed > for loading module-loopback at runtime. The configuration option is > "allow-module-loading" in daemon.conf. In addition you need to do some stuff to enable bluetooth support in system mode, see http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/898#comment:9 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/]
