Re: [opensuse-factory] Puzzled by pulseaudio and the whole audio setup mess

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On 7/10/2009 at 8:01 AM, Sid Boyce wrote: # rpm -qa|grep pulse libpulsecore4-0.9.12-9.5

This old rpm on your box indicates you have done a couple of upgrades rather than a clean install. Possibly you are in sort of a bad state. See solution below.

# pactl list Connection failure: Connection refused # pactl stat Connection failure: Connection refused # aplay /jet.wav Connection refused # paplay /jet.wav Connection failure: Connection refused

My guess is it's the same problem as above - you had an older version running and newer clients connecting. Why are you running these commands as root though? The daemon wont properly autospawn (if needed) that way.

# cat /jet.wav >/dev/dsp WORKS.

You are directly accessing the device bypassing anything else.

Skype works Audio in firefox is silent. Messed with settings in paprefs, no change. Running without pulseaudio --- # aplay /jet.wav ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

How are you "Running without pulseaudio"? GNOME is setup to route alsa through pulse by default - ie paplay and aplay are the same route. It looks like your KDE box is doing the same.

**** As user **** lancelot@slipstream:~> pulseaudio --start lancelot@slipstream:~> ps fax|grep pulse 30133 pts/6 S+ 0:00 | | \_ grep pulse 30123 ? Ssl 0:00 pulseaudio --start lancelot@slipstream:~> aplay /jet.wav Playing WAVE '/jet.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono

*** No sound.

lancelot@slipstream:~> paplay /jet.wav lancelot@slipstream:~> *** No sound output.

Try making sure you have a clean state kill any pulseaudio instance running rm -rf ~/.pulse* Does that work? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org