[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#470301: closed by Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> (Re: Bug#470301: neverball: doesn't start if not using arts/kde)

[Eddy Petrișor]

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> #470301: neverball doesn't start with pulseaudio enabled (no kde)
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> Re: Bug#470301: neverball: doesn't start if not using arts/kde
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> Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net>
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> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:30:55AM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote:
>> 0 eddy at twix ~ $ neverball
>> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
>> Creating link /home/eddy/.kde/socket-twix.
>> can't create mcop directory
>> 1 eddy at twix ~ $ killall pulseaudio
>> 0 eddy at twix ~ $ neverball
>> 0 eddy at twix ~ $
>>
>> I am a member of the usual pulse groups:
>>
>> 0 eddy at twix ~ $ groups eddy
>> eddy : eddy adm dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev staff users
>> powerdev fuse debpool pulse pulse-access pulse-rt packages
>>
>> My pulseaudio config is attached. Nothing is enabled in client.conf.
>> Ditto for daemon.conf.
>>
>> /etc/default/pulseaudio has:
>>
>> PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=0
>> and
>> DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=0
> 
> If you want to use pulseaudio then you need to setup your alsa to go through
> pulseaudio. See:
> 
>   http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications
> 
> The pulse alsa plugin can be found in libasound2-plugins.
> 
> I've just tested neverball, it seems to work fine.

Sorry, my bad.

> Making the setup more automated is still on our todo list, but it has proven to
> be quite tricky to get right.

Couldn't there be an option like '--migrate-to-pa' or an environment variable that pulseaudio could 
take into account to migrate/create the system/user configuration automatically. By default it would 
be set so migration is disabled.

So, when running pulseaudio for the first time (depending on the value of that parameter) would make 
the necessary changes to make pulse the default sound output using hal or another alsa mixer (or 
however is called), etc.

Wouldn't that work?

Just an idea.

> Closing this bug as it's a user configuration error, not a bug in pulseaudio

-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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