On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 14:18 -0500, Borries Demeler wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 08:19:42PM +0200, Georg Chini wrote: > > On 17.04.2015 17:00, Borries Demeler wrote: > > >I am unable to get pulseaudio to work on my Slackware 14.1 system. > > >It used to work and then for some unknown reason it started to fail. > > >I needed pulseaudio to get Skype to work, which requires it. I also > > >had to build a 32-bit binary distro to support Skype, but now I am > > >at a loss on how to re-activate it and I am clueless as to what broke > > >the working install. At the core, the problem seems to be related to > > >pulseaudio's failure to load some alsa modules. Any help would be > > >greatly appreciated! /etc/pulse contents are attached. > > >I already tried to remove my ~/.config/pulse directory and recreate it, > > >to no avail. > > > > > >Thanks!!! > > > > > > > > Two things: > > 1) dbus does not seem to be accessible. > > 2) pulseaudio does not find the file extra-hdmi.conf (it is no longer > > needed for pulseaudio 6.0 but I think for 5.0 you need it) > > > > I'm not the expert, so not sure if one of the issues above > > is responsible for your problem. > > > > Regards > > Georg > > Thanks for replying, Georg. > What should I look for regarding dbus? It looks like it is running: > > ps ax | grep dbus > 966 ? Ss 0:03 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system > 1297 ? S 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session > 1298 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session If you want to get rid of that D-Bus warning, you need to start pulseaudio inside the login session that sets up the session bus. The D-Bus warning does not generally indicate serious problems in functionality, though (only some minor stuff gets broken). > Where do I get an example file for the extra-hdmi.conf? I am not sure how > to set this up. You seem to be running PulseAudio 5.0, which ships extra-hdmi.conf. extra-hdmi.conf should get installed under /usr/lib/udev/rules.d as part of the normal installation procedure. Apparently the installation is broken. Another thing that looks broken is that the home directory seems to be /var/lib/pulse instead of /home/username. /var/lib/pulse would be expected when running PulseAudio in the system mode, but you're not running it in the system mode. I don't know how you could end up in this situation by accident... -- Tanu
