On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 03:58 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 03:08:09 +1100 > > Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote: > >> 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.. > >> ++++ For some reason pulseaudio isn't handling the dbus messages. You could attach "pulseaudio -vvv" output, maybe the log contains something related error messages. > 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. FYI, actually module-jackdbus-detect isn't involved with the device releasing. That part is implemented directly in the alsa modules. For some reason pulseaudio isn't handling the dbus messages, you could attach "pulseaudio -vvv" output, maybe the log contains something related error messages. -- Tanu