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["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 12/1/2008 at 5:50 PM, Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Dominique Leuenberger <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ...
> > > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
> > > [00000481] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device
> > (/dev/dsp)
> > > [00000481] pulse audio output error: Failed to connect to server:
> > Connection 
> > > refused
> > > [00000481] pulse audio output error: Pulse initialization failed
> ... 
> > I assume you have vlc 0.9.6 or 0.9.7, right?
> > You have the vlc-aout-pulse package installed?
>
> I see:
>
> $ rpm -q vlc-aout-pulse
> vlc-aout-pulse-0.9.6-2.6
> $ rpm -q vlc
> vlc-0.9.6-2.6

That's fine

> > So the solution 'might' be for you to simply uninstall all pulse
audio
> > related packages and 'switch' pack to plain ol' ALSA.
>
> What do I need to do to achieve that? Do I simply do rpm --erase 
> vlc-aout-pulse-0.9.6-2.6

Easiest is to use yast and uninstall pulseaudio itself (it will try to
drop many dependencies... check if nothing 'vital' for you disappears..
normally you should be able to accept it).

Dominique
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