On 2012-01-11 20:56, Tony Austin wrote: > I hope this is the right place to raise this topic. > > I am running Ubuntu 11.10 which installs Pulse and JACK by default. > Sound works fine with most things but not with Google Talk. To get > sound to work with GT I have to Quit JACK. Jack (the daemon, not the library) is not installed by default in Ubuntu 11.10. Maybe you installed something else that pulled it in as a dependency. But anyway, the server should not be started unless you run a program that requires JACK, which is the essence of the problem here. > I have read that if I can configure Pulse correctly that GT can be made > to work with JACK running. It should work out of the box, with module-jackdbus-detect enabled as the default; but we're not there yet. Still bugs to fix last time I checked. > 1. Should my user be a member of the "audio" group or not? I have > found both as recommended. No. > 2. Do I need to enable Simultaneous Output in PA Preferences? No. > 3. If I do enable Simultaneous Output I can't start pulseaudio: > > tony at ubuntu:~$ pulseaudio -D > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. > tony at ubuntu:~$ pulseaudio > W: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. > W: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use > module-combine-sink instead of module-combine! > W: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. > Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration. > Killed That looks like a crash/bug though, that might be worth investigating further. -- David Henningsson http://launchpad.net/~diwic
