I successfully configured a multiseat setup with pulseaudio, but I am not able to access qpaeq to alter equalizer settings. I have had some limited success with it but currently it's not working. As well I have had similar success using pulseaudio-equalizer. When I try to load qpaeq it gives me this error: There was an error connecting to pulseaudio, please make sure you have the pulseaudio dbus module loaded, exiting... But when I do this: pactl load-module module-dbus-protocol I get this: Failure: Module initialization failed Sound is working, and I can select either the pulseaudio-equalizer sink or the qpaeq sink in sound preferences, but I cannot adjust settings. With pulseaudio-equalizer, I get: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. I can run pulseaudio-equalizer --system and I get: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. PulseAudio Equalizer/LADSPA Processor 2.7 (05/02/2010) No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. ------------------------------------- Equalizer status: [disabled] Equalizer configuration status: [enabled] Equalizer plugin: [mbeq_1197/mbeq] Equalizer control: [30.0,30.0,26.7,19.8,14.8,6.6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] NOTE: Using user-customized settings from '/home/phoenix/.config/pulse/equalizerrc'... Still, I have no reliable method to adjust sound settings. Is there any suitable solution? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140128/2f19cfea/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pulseaudio.conf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1888 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140128/2f19cfea/attachment-0008.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mdm.conf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 3710 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140128/2f19cfea/attachment-0009.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: client.conf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1264 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140128/2f19cfea/attachment-0010.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: daemon.conf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 2310 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140128/2f19cfea/attachment-0011.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: default.pa Type: application/octet-stream Size: 6300 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140128/2f19cfea/attachment-0012.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: system.pa Type: application/octet-stream Size: 2261 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140128/2f19cfea/attachment-0013.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: xorg.conf.0 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1816 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140128/2f19cfea/attachment-0014.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: xorg.conf.1 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1792 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140128/2f19cfea/attachment-0015.obj>