[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#485426: pulseaudio doesn't start if using module-hal-detect

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:02:22PM +0200, Benjamin Leipold wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 0.9.10-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> If using module-hal-detect to let pulseaudio automatically configure 
> alsa-source and alsa-sink, pulseaudio doesn't start because it cannot 
> open PCM 
> device hw:0 for alsa-source. This seems reasonable since hw:0 is already 
> in use by alsa-sink. If i remove load-module module-hal-detect and 
> using module-alsa-sink device=hw:0 instead in default.pa, 

Can you attach a log from pulseaudio -v -v and your default.pa ? module-hal
loads the alsa modules in a way that allow them to fail, which indeed works
fine on my systems. 

> pulseaudio 
> starts up only claiming that the operation setrlimit is not allowed, 
> which is 
> another issue i don't understand (since my user is in group pulse-rt).

I'm looking into this.

  Sjoerd
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