On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 03:58:20 +1100 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote: > > On Thu, November 1, 2012 3:45 am, Richard Bown wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 03:08:09 +1100 > > Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> On Wed, October 31, 2012 11:26 pm, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 20:59 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> Does anyone have any thoughts on why the following is happening? > >> >> > >> >> Using Debian wheezy on an intel board with built in HDA chipset. > >> >> (Notebook > >> >> sound card) > >> >> > >> >> I was unable to start jack. It seemed like the problem might have > >> been > >> >> because pulse was running so I killed pulse with "pulseaudio -k". > >> That > >> >> didn't help. > >> > > >> > If you need to keep pulseaudio not running, put "autospawn = no" to > >> > ~/.pulse/client.conf. Then "pulseaudio -k" actually has the effect > >> that > >> > you expect it to have... > >> > > >> >> I installed pulseaudio-module-jack and configured > >> >> /etc/pulse/default.pa to include > >> >> > >> >> load-module module-jack-sink > >> >> load-module module-jack-source > >> > > >> > Could you undo all these modifications so that the problem can be > >> > debugged on a "normal" system? > >> > > >> > >> I have removed those two entries in the /etc/pulse/default.pa > >> > >> 3: The current situation is that I cannot run jackd (jack2 -1.9.9) with > >> "dbus enabled" in qjackctl misc settings window because I get an error : > >> > >> ++++ > >> Failed to acquire device name : Audio0 error : Method "RequestRelease" > >> with signature "i" on interface "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1" doesn't > >> exist > >> Audio device hw:0 cannot be acquired.. > >> ++++ > >> > >> 2: I get the same error if I run it from the command line: > >> > >> jackd -d alsa -d hw:0 > >> > >> > >> 3: If I try to use jackdbus instead of jackd I get this message instead: > >> > >> ++++ > >> jackdbus should be auto-executed by D-Bus message bus daemon. > >> If you want to run it manually anyway, specify "auto" as only parameter > >> ++++ > >> > >> > >> 4: I can run jackd with hw:1 with no problems > >> > >> 5: I can run jackd with hw:0 if I kill pulse and run it as superuser > >> with > >> "pulseaudio --system -D" > >> > >> > >> 6: Here's the output of "pactl list modules short" as Richard > >> suggested: > >> > >> ++++ > >> $ pactl list modules short > >> 0 module-device-restore > >> 1 module-stream-restore > >> 2 module-card-restore > >> 3 module-augment-properties > >> 4 module-alsa-card device_id="0" name="pci-0000_00_1b.0" > >> card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes > >> fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes > >> card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1" > >> 5 module-udev-detect > >> 6 module-jackdbus-detect > >> 7 module-native-protocol-unix > >> 8 module-default-device-restore > >> 9 module-rescue-streams > >> 10 module-always-sink > >> 11 module-intended-roles > >> 12 module-suspend-on-idle > >> 13 module-console-kit > >> 14 module-systemd-login > >> 15 module-position-event-sounds > >> 16 module-role-cork > >> 17 module-filter-heuristics > >> 18 module-filter-apply > >> 19 module-dbus-protocol > >> 20 module-switch-on-port-available > >> 21 module-x11-publish display=:0 > >> 22 module-x11-cork-request display=:0 > >> 23 module-x11-xsmp display=:0 > >> session_manager=local/xxxx:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/3709,unix/whare:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3709 > >> 24 module-alsa-card device_id="1" > >> name="usb-Yealink_Network_Technology_Ltd._VOIP_USB_Phone-00-Phone" > >> card_name="alsa_card.usb-Yealink_Network_Technology_Ltd._VOIP_USB_Phone-00-Phone" > >> namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no > >> deferred_volume=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1" > >> ++++ > >> > >> > >> > >> >> restarted pulseaudio with pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio and it attempted > >> to > >> >> start jack server but was not able to. At that point I was unable to > >> get > >> >> pulseaudio to start at all or jack so I decided to reboot in case it > >> was > >> >> a > >> >> kernel oops. > >> >> > >> >> After rebooting pulseaudio still would not start. I tried a couple of > >> >> options but in the end I had to run "pulseaudio --system -D" as > >> >> superuser. > >> >> After doing that jackd would run from qjackctl but there are not > >> >> pulse-sink/source connections in jack probably because pulse is > >> running > >> >> as > >> >> superuser but I'm not 100% on the exact reason for this behaviour. I > >> can > >> >> see that pulseaudio is running with "ps aux". > >> > > >> > I'm pretty sure that the jack stuff won't work if you run pulseaudio > >> in > >> > the system mode. > >> > > >> > It would be nice if we could start from a clean slate, and get the > >> exact > >> > error messages. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Tanu > >> > > >> > > >> > > Jackd will not start unless it can acquire a device, which has to be free > > and > > unused by any other device. > > If the wanted device is already captured , it must be released before > > jackd > > starts. > > AFAIK pulseaudio has no psychic ability to know that jackd wants the > > device > > which it is already using. > > > > module-jackdbus-detect is supposed to release the lock on the device when > jackdbus (jackd2) starts and then auto reconfigure and connect to > jackdbus/jackd2 loading the jack-sink/source modules once jackdbus/jackd2 > has successfully started. > > The problem in this case appears to be that it does not attempt to release > the lock on the device for some unknown reason. > > > Read what you have written and you will understand why it doesn't. -- -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: richard at g8jvm.com Mail now hosted by SimplyMailSolutions Please avoid using old e-mail address of richard.bown at blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegitemis ################################################################################## Ham Call G8JVM . 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