On Sunday 05 September 2010 01:16:46 Ken Moffat wrote:
> I have no experience with PulseAudio - it's on my list of things to
> look at somewhen, but so far I'm nowhere near it.
Here is what worked for me (pure 64-bit amd64)/kde-4.4.5 build:
but caution I am an ignoramous on things 'software' so
extraneous/unnecessary bits are due to fubmling in the dark.
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1) use pulseaudio from GIT. Surprisingly it is labelled as pulseaudio-0.9.19
whilst the released stuff is 0.9.21.
2) add user pulse to the audio group (this may be extraneous )
3) Dispense with the BLFS alsa bootscript and let udev hande alsa. I used a
udev-rule with these:-
#---------------------------------------------------
# Give the audio group ownership of sound devices
SUBSYSTEM=="sound", GROUP="audio"
SUBSYSTEM=="snd", GROUP="audio"
KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*", NAME="snd/%k", MODE="0660", ACTION=="add", \
RUN+="/usr/sbin/alsactl -E ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/alsa/alsactl.conf --
initfile=/usr/share/alsa/init/00main restore /dev/$name"
KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*", NAME="snd/%k", MODE="0660", ACTION=="remove", \
RUN+="/usr/sbin/alsactl -E ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/alsa/alsactl.conf store
/dev/$name"
#--------------------------------------------------
4) make an /etc/asound.conf file with these:-
#--------------------------------------------------
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
#-------------------------------------------
5) recompiled alsa-plugins after pulseaudio
(needed for alsa on the cli )
6) update udev I used udev-162 and had to copy 78-sound-card.rules from the
source tree to /etc/udev/rules.d
7) after updating udev if there is no /dev/cdrom nor /dev/dvd create a simple
rule like so:-
#--------------------------------------------------
cat>/etc/udev/rules.d/100-customCDROM.rules<<"EOF"
# 100-customCDROM.rules
#
SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="hdX", SYMLINK+="dvd", GROUP="cdrom"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="hdX", SYMLINK+="cdrom", GROUP="cdrom"
EOF
where "hdX" is your optical-disk
#--------------------------------------------------
8) play music or wotever
Interestingly in KDE-4.4.5 there is no welcoming sound at the first login.
Suggestions for a fix is welcomed.
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