Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-26 Thread Colin Guthrie 
'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 22/09/10 02:04 did gyre and gimble:
 iii---I  I recompiled  kdemultimedia also.  On  restart I obtained sound on 
 the   second login but none subsequenty and cdrom sound  is practicly mute   
 ~ 
 a tenth as loud as  a hungry mosquito.

FWIW, unless you are wroking on new features, I'd recommend using the
stable-queue branch upstream rather than master. It's effectively
0.9.21 with ~180 odd fixes on top. I'm hoping to release this as 0.9.22
pretty soon.

Anyway, if the volume changes, it's typically due to some client
changing it.

In the case of logins this can be a bit confusing. Typically your user's
PA daemon will ignore any volume changes when it is suspended but it
will not actually restore them when it is unsuspended (I think, I need
to double check this).

Changes are what happens is this:
 1. You log in and startup a PA process.
 2. You log out, but your PA daemon sticks around for some time.
 3. KDM or something similar sets the volume either by running it's own
PA or via alsa etc. doesn't really matter.
 4. You log in again, before your PA process has died. We look at the
system volume and see it is lower than before and adjust ourselves to fit.

Ironically, I believe if you wait long enough before logging back in,
your PA process will die and when you login it will be restarted and
will ultimately restore the volume properly.

I *think* that's what's going on, but not 100% sure.

Col



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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-21 Thread sibu xolo 
On Monday 20 September 2010 08:37:02 Colin Guthrie wrote:
 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 20/09/10 00:41 did gyre and gimble:
  On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:58:08 Colin Guthrie wrote:
  'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 14/09/10 13:33 did gyre and gimble:
  On Monday 13 September 2010 11:59:14 Colin Guthrie wrote:
  'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 11:10 did gyre and gimble:
   First of all thanks  (or shall I say 'kallu kalay')  for the help.
  
  but you really do want to use all the patches from this branch since
  v0.9.21 tag (there will likely be another 10 fixes landing later today)
  
   I downloaded the stuff from GIT.  The bundle was  labelled as
  
  [pulseaudio-0.9.19 which is strange considering  the released stuff is
  labelled 0.9.21.  I did not clean out the original installation before I
  compiled/installed the git stuff  so a couple of the libraries had 0.9.21
  extensions  (I merely labelled them as _X).  I then recompiled
  alsa-plugins and so far  I have sound on all logins and logouts as well
  as the cli.  So much  progress has been made.
 
 Yeah this is just a quirk of how the versions are labelled directly from
 git... I really do need to fix it at some point.
 
  ---e) audio CDROMs do not play neither with KsCD nor Kaffeine for any
  logins
  
  This is likely an issue to do with using analog playback rather than
  digital extraction (DAE) and subsequent software playback. You can
  probably use a low level alsamixer  (alsamixer -c0) to unmute the CDROM
  element, but really most applications should be using digital extraction
  and software playback these days AFAIK.
  
  I'd ignore this particular problem until all others are addressed :)
  
  I still do not have CDROM sound nither with Kaffeine nor KsCD,  I tried
  an internet search but came up with nowt so any pointers you can give
  will be grtefully received.
 
 Hmm, interesting. I'll try and see what I can find out for you.
 

I managed to fix the problem.  It was a udev problem.  After I updated to 
udev-162, the /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd  symlinks to  my ide cdrom disappeared.  
I used a simple udev rule to re-create these and now cdrom sound plays in KsCD 
Kaffeine et al.

Thanks again for your  help. and if ever you want to try  an already made 
sample of cblfs on you x86_64-pc  please let me know.

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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-21 Thread Colin Guthrie 
'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 21/09/10 11:12 did gyre and gimble:
 I managed to fix the problem.  It was a udev problem.  After I updated to 
 udev-162, the /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd  symlinks to  my ide cdrom disappeared. 
  
 I used a simple udev rule to re-create these and now cdrom sound plays in 
 KsCD 
 Kaffeine et al.

Ahh good old udev messing things up for us!

Excellent. Glad you got it all working :D

Col



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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-21 Thread sibu xolo 
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 12:28:04 Colin Guthrie wrote:
 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 21/09/10 11:12 did gyre and gimble:
  I managed to fix the problem.  It was a udev problem.  After I updated to
  udev-162, the /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd  symlinks to  my ide cdrom
  disappeared. I used a simple udev rule to re-create these and now cdrom
  sound plays in KsCD Kaffeine et al.
 
 Ahh good old udev messing things up for us!
 
 Excellent. Glad you got it all working :D
 

oops had a related problem.

I had another machine not on the internet so I copied  a  download of pulse 
from GIT  and did an installation.:-  
i beforehand I   purged it if pulse-0.9.21/ consolekit and 
hal)
iiI noticed that symlinks to   the Makefile in the base direcory pf pulse 
were missing so I replace these
iii---I  I recompiled  kdemultimedia also.  On  restart I obtained sound on 
the   second login but none subsequenty and cdrom sound  is practicly mute   ~ 
a tenth as loud as  a hungry mosquito.

pacmd ls  is below   
Welcome to PulseAudio! Use help for usage information.
 Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 1641, size: 7.8 MiB.
Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Total sample cache size: 0 B.
Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default channel map: front-left,front-right
Default sink name: alsa_output.pci-_00_07.0.analog-stereo
Default source name: alsa_input.pci-_00_07.0.analog-stereo
Memory blocks of type POOL: 1 allocated/785 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type POOL_EXTERNAL: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type APPENDED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type USER: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type FIXED: 0 allocated/154 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type IMPORTED: 0 allocated/702 accumulated.
20 module(s) loaded.
index: 0
name: module-device-restore
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Automatically restore the volume/mute 
state of 
devices
module.version = 0.9.19-562-g395da-dirty
index: 1
name: module-stream-restore
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Automatically restore the 
volume/mute/device 
state of streams
module.version = 0.9.19-562-g395da-dirty
index: 2
name: module-card-restore
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Automatically restore profile of cards
module.version = 0.9.19-562-g395da-dirty
index: 3
name: module-augment-properties
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Augment the property sets of streams with 
additional static information
module.version = 0.9.19-562-g395da-dirty
index: 4
name: module-alsa-card
argument: device_id=3 name=pci-_00_07.0 
card_name=alsa_card.pci-_00_07.0 namereg_fail=false tsched=yes 
ignore_dB=no card_properties=module-udev-detect.discovered=1
used: 0
load once: no
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = ALSA Card
module.version = 0.9.19-562-g395da-dirty
index: 5
name: module-udev-detect
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Detect available audio hardware and load 
matching drivers
module.version = 0.9.19-562-g395da-dirty
index: 6
name: module-bluetooth-discover
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Joao Paulo Rechi Vita
module.description = Detect available bluetooth audio devices 
and 
load bluetooth audio drivers
module.version = 0.9.19-562-g395da-dirty
index: 7
name: module-esound-protocol-unix
argument: 
used: -1
load once: no
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = ESOUND protocol (UNIX sockets)
module.version = 0.9.19-562-g395da-dirty
index: 8
name: module-dbus-protocol
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Tanu Kaskinen
module.description = D-Bus interface
module.version = 0.9.19-562-g395da-dirty
index:

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-20 Thread Colin Guthrie 
'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 20/09/10 00:41 did gyre and gimble:
 On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:58:08 Colin Guthrie wrote:
 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 14/09/10 13:33 did gyre and gimble:
 On Monday 13 September 2010 11:59:14 Colin Guthrie wrote:
 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 11:10 did gyre and gimble:
  First of all thanks  (or shall I say 'kallu kalay')  for the help.
 
 but you really do want to use all the patches from this branch since
 v0.9.21 tag (there will likely be another 10 fixes landing later today)

  I downloaded the stuff from GIT.  The bundle was  labelled as 
 [pulseaudio-0.9.19 which is strange considering  the released stuff is 
 labelled 0.9.21.  I did not clean out the original installation before I 
 compiled/installed the git stuff  so a couple of the libraries had 0.9.21 
 extensions  (I merely labelled them as _X).  I then recompiled alsa-plugins   
  
 and so far  I have sound on all logins and logouts as well as the cli.  So  
 much  progress has been made.

Yeah this is just a quirk of how the versions are labelled directly from
git... I really do need to fix it at some point.

 
 
 ---e) audio CDROMs do not play neither with KsCD nor Kaffeine for any
 logins

 This is likely an issue to do with using analog playback rather than
 digital extraction (DAE) and subsequent software playback. You can
 probably use a low level alsamixer  (alsamixer -c0) to unmute the CDROM
 element, but really most applications should be using digital extraction
 and software playback these days AFAIK.

 I'd ignore this particular problem until all others are addressed :)
 I still do not have CDROM sound nither with Kaffeine nor KsCD,  I tried an 
 internet search but came up with nowt so any pointers you can give will be 
 grtefully received.


Hmm, interesting. I'll try and see what I can find out for you.

When playing via KsCD, does everything look as if it *is* playing but
you just cannot hear sound?

If so, when something is playing, can you run pacmd list and then
attach the output here?

Cheers

Col

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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-19 Thread sibu xolo 
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 13:58:08 Colin Guthrie wrote:
 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 14/09/10 13:33 did gyre and gimble:
  On Monday 13 September 2010 11:59:14 Colin Guthrie wrote:
  'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 11:10 did gyre and gimble:
   First of all thanks  (or shall I say 'kallu kalay')  for the help.

 but you really do want to use all the patches from this branch since
 v0.9.21 tag (there will likely be another 10 fixes landing later today)

 I downloaded the stuff from GIT.  The bundle was  labelled as 
[pulseaudio-0.9.19 which is strange considering  the released stuff is 
labelled 0.9.21.  I did not clean out the original installation before I 
compiled/installed the git stuff  so a couple of the libraries had 0.9.21 
extensions  (I merely labelled them as _X).  I then recompiled alsa-plugins
and so far  I have sound on all logins and logouts as well as the cli.  So  
much  progress has been made.



  ---e) audio CDROMs do not play neither with KsCD nor Kaffeine for any
  logins
 
 This is likely an issue to do with using analog playback rather than
 digital extraction (DAE) and subsequent software playback. You can
 probably use a low level alsamixer  (alsamixer -c0) to unmute the CDROM
 element, but really most applications should be using digital extraction
 and software playback these days AFAIK.
 
 I'd ignore this particular problem until all others are addressed :)
I still do not have CDROM sound nither with Kaffeine nor KsCD,  I tried an 
internet search but came up with nowt so any pointers you can give will be 
grtefully received.

Once again many thanks for your help.

sincerely
sibu xolo.

 
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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-14 Thread sibu xolo 
On Monday 13 September 2010 11:59:14 Colin Guthrie wrote:
 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 11:10 did gyre and gimble:
 First of all thanks  (or shall I say 'kallu kalay')  for the help. 

 I'm not sure why udev-detect would cause problems. I would suggest to
 double check your udev setup and make sure the relevant udev rules are
 present on your system. udev 147 is pretty old, perhaps a newer version
 is needed (I can't remember the minimum system requirements), but
 certainly: /lib/udev/rules.d/78-sound-card.rules



I updated udev to udev-162.  And  I can report some progress and some 
glitches.

PROGRESS:

---a) the first login and logout  via kdm gives the  welcome and exit sounds
---b)the  kde/~Multimedia dialog has  a dummy greyed-out icon and another as 
'Internal Audio analog stereo'
---c) aplay plays wav files in konsole  -as well as on the cli in/before/after 
startkde/kdm-logout


GLITCHES
---
---d) kde/sound is mute for all other logins and logouts  bar the first
---e) audio CDROMs do not play neither with KsCD nor Kaffeine for any logins

-


 'pacmd -ls' looks like this after login via kdm

Welcome to PulseAudio! Use help for usage information.
 Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 85, size: 2.6 MiB.
Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
Total sample cache size: 0 B.
Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default channel map: front-left,front-right
Default sink name: alsa_output.pci-_00_07.0.analog-stereo
Default source name: alsa_input.pci-_00_07.0.analog-stereo
Memory blocks of type POOL: 1 allocated/28 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type POOL_EXTERNAL: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type APPENDED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type USER: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type FIXED: 0 allocated/57 accumulated.
Memory blocks of type IMPORTED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
22 module(s) loaded.
index: 0
name: module-device-restore
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Automatically restore the volume/mute 
state of 
devices
module.version = 0.9.21
index: 1
name: module-stream-restore
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Automatically restore the 
volume/mute/device 
state of streams
module.version = 0.9.21
index: 2
name: module-card-restore
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Automatically restore profile of cards
module.version = 0.9.21
index: 3
name: module-augment-properties
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Augment the property sets of streams 
with 
additional static information
module.version = 0.9.21
index: 4
name: module-alsa-card
argument: device_id=0 name=pci-_00_07.0 
card_name=alsa_card.pci-_00_07.0 tsched=yes ignore_dB=no 
card_properties=module-udev-detect.discovered=1
used: 0
load once: no
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = ALSA Card
module.version = 0.9.21
index: 5
name: module-udev-detect
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Detect available audio hardware and load 
matching drivers
module.version = 0.9.21
index: 6
name: module-bluetooth-discover
argument: 
used: -1
load once: yes
properties:
module.author = Joao Paulo Rechi Vita
module.description = Detect available bluetooth audio devices 
and 
load bluetooth audio drivers
module.version = 0.9.21
index: 7
name: module-esound-protocol-unix
argument: 
used: -1
load once: no
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = ESOUND protocol (UNIX sockets)
module.version = 0.9.21
index: 8
name: module-native-protocol-unix
argument: 
used: -1
load once: no
properties:
module.author = Lennart Poettering
module.description = Native protocol (UNIX sockets)

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-14 Thread Colin Guthrie 
'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 14/09/10 13:33 did gyre and gimble:
 On Monday 13 September 2010 11:59:14 Colin Guthrie wrote:
 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 11:10 did gyre and gimble:
  First of all thanks  (or shall I say 'kallu kalay')  for the help. 
 
 I'm not sure why udev-detect would cause problems. I would suggest to
 double check your udev setup and make sure the relevant udev rules are
 present on your system. udev 147 is pretty old, perhaps a newer version
 is needed (I can't remember the minimum system requirements), but
 certainly: /lib/udev/rules.d/78-sound-card.rules
 
 
 
 I updated udev to udev-162.  And  I can report some progress and some 
 glitches.
 
 PROGRESS:
 
 ---a) the first login and logout  via kdm gives the  welcome and exit sounds
 ---b)the  kde/~Multimedia dialog has  a dummy greyed-out icon and another as 
 'Internal Audio analog stereo'

Excellent. Both are expected outcomes. Because PA has been run with the
Dummy Output in the past, it will remember this for you and keep it in
the list as a previously seen sink (the same view would be presented
for USB devices you plug in and subsequently remove). You can
effectively ignore it or remove the device-manager tdb file in the
~/.pulse folder to purge it (one of these days I'll implement some
kind of GUI to remove it).

 ---c) aplay plays wav files in konsole  -as well as on the cli 
 in/before/after 
 startkde/kdm-logout

Cool.

 GLITCHES
 ---
 ---d) kde/sound is mute for all other logins and logouts  bar the first

Hmm, is that with different users or logging out and back in with the
same user?

When you say mute do you really mean mute or do you just mean that you
cannot hear anything. Does the device list in the kde/~Multimedia dialog
look the same?

Also are you using a Display Manager and if so which one (KDM?), and are
you using the stable-queue PA from git or the plain 0.9.21 tarball?

The reason I ask is that if it really is muting then it's probably
related to a volume adjustment race condition that may be getting in the
way. It's been fixed a long time ago in the stable-queue branch and all
the distros I know are shipping this fix (well they ship all the patches
from stable-queue).

The particular fix is:
http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=commit;h=540ec7b961256d6c7702448ca995f61268064190

but you really do want to use all the patches from this branch since
v0.9.21 tag (there will likely be another 10 fixes landing later today)

More details on the specific bug here:
http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/572#comment:19

 ---e) audio CDROMs do not play neither with KsCD nor Kaffeine for any logins

This is likely an issue to do with using analog playback rather than
digital extraction (DAE) and subsequent software playback. You can
probably use a low level alsamixer  (alsamixer -c0) to unmute the CDROM
element, but really most applications should be using digital extraction
and software playback these days AFAIK.

I'd ignore this particular problem until all others are addressed :)

Col

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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-13 Thread Kelly Anderson 

 On 09/12/10 19:04, sibu xolo wrote:

pcm.pulse {
 type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
 type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
 type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
 type pulse
}




Try the following, it should allow alsamixer to control the default device

pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
#pcm.!default {
#type pulse
#}
#ctl.!default {
#type pulse
#}



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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-13 Thread Colin Guthrie 
'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 02:04 did gyre and gimble:
 a) I am using system5 init and alsamixer refuses to start on the CLI at run-
 level 3 reporting 
 pulseaaudio' connection refused  (or somesuch)  but...

I guess PA cannot start on the CLI for some reason. alsamixer or aplay
should autospawn PA if it's not running (which would be typical with a
console login).

I suspect not being able to connect to dbus/consolekit is the problem,
but to find out, run pulseaudio -vvv from the cli rather than aplay and
it should tell you the reasons for not starting.


 b) alsamixer starts after  login in kde in konsole; sound devices are 
 correctly reported (on the cli);  aplay reports no errors but no sound is  
 heard  and outputs are not mute.

Check the profiles in pavucontrol's configuration tab. Post the output
from pacmd ls to allow others to have a look at the setup.


 b) Still in kde, When the ownership/permissions on  /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-
 daemon-launch-helper
  file are set as shown above   the KDE System Settings/Multimedia dialog 
 reports a dummy device

$ ll /lib64/dbus-1/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
-rwsr-x--- 1 root messagebus 47384 2010-03-24 09:46
/lib64/dbus-1/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

Same perms here... I'm not sure why dbus failure would results in a
dummy device. I wonder if it's simply that PA cannot reserve the audio
device via the dbus based device reservation protocol and thus can't
load the sink.

Even still dbus based activation seems to work for me :s

Col
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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-13 Thread sibu xolo 
On Monday 13 September 2010 09:28:22 Colin Guthrie wrote:
 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 02:04 did gyre and gimble:
  a) I am using system5 init and alsamixer refuses to start on the CLI at
  run- level 3 reporting
  pulseaaudio' connection refused  (or somesuch)  but...
 
 I guess PA cannot start on the CLI for some reason. alsamixer or aplay
 should autospawn PA if it's not running (which would be typical with a
 console login).
 
 I suspect not being able to connect to dbus/consolekit is the problem,
 but to find out, run pulseaudio -vvv from the cli rather than aplay and
 it should tell you the reasons for not starting.

 here is the ooutput from running pulseaudio -vvv on the cli  BEFORE 
kde starts

I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
I: core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: No such file or 
directory
I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.21
D: main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
D: main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -
Winline -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -
Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs 
-Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -
Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-
prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -
Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wwrite-strings -Wno-
unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -
fdiagnostics-show-option
D: main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 2.6.35.4nbf8DRIm #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed 
Sep 8 15:10:46 BST 2010
D: main.c: Found 2 CPUs.
I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: yes
D: main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: main.c: Running in VM: no
D: main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: main.c: All asserts enabled.
I: main.c: Machine ID is 1385ab3a82291ea2800476890006.
I: main.c: Using runtime directory 
/home/sx/.pulse/1385ab3a82291ea2800476890006-runtime.
I: main.c: Using state directory /home/sx/.pulse.
I: main.c: Using modules directory /opt/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules.
I: main.c: Running in system mode: no
I: main.c: Fresh high-resolution timers available! Bon appetit!
I: cpu-x86.c: CPU flags: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 MMXEXT 3DNOW 3DNOWEXT 
I: svolume_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized functions.
I: remap_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized remappers.
I: svolume_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized functions.
I: remap_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized remappers.
I: sconv_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized conversions.
D: memblock.c: Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, 
total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472
D: database-gdbm.c: Opened GDBM database 
'/home/sx/.pulse/1385ab3a82291ea2800476890006-device-volumes.x86_64-
unknown-linux-gnu.gdbm'
I: module-device-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file 
'/home/sx/.pulse/1385ab3a82291ea2800476890006-device-volumes'.
I: module.c: Loaded module-device-restore (index: #0; argument: ).
D: database-gdbm.c: Opened GDBM database 
'/home/sx/.pulse/1385ab3a82291ea2800476890006-stream-volumes.x86_64-
unknown-linux-gnu.gdbm'
I: module-stream-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file 
'/home/sx/.pulse/1385ab3a82291ea2800476890006-stream-volumes'.
I: module.c: Loaded module-stream-restore (index: #1; argument: ).
D: database-gdbm.c: Opened GDBM database 
'/home/sx/.pulse/1385ab3a82291ea2800476890006-card-database.x86_64-
unknown-linux-gnu.gdbm'
I: module-card-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file 
'/home/sx/.pulse/1385ab3a82291ea2800476890006-card-database'.
I: module.c: Loaded module-card-restore (index: #2; argument: ).
I: module.c: Loaded module-augment-properties (index: #3; argument: ).
D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of 
'/opt/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules/module-udev-detect.so': success
I: module-udev-detect.c: Found 0 cards.
I: module.c: Loaded module-udev-detect (index: #4; argument: ).
D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of 
'/opt/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules/module-bluetooth-discover.so': success
D: dbus-util.c: Successfully connected to D-Bus system bus 
244284b9a8358759ce53123d0008 as :1.7
D: bluetooth-util.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus, 
path=/org/freedesktop/DBus, member=NameAcquired
D: bluetooth-util.c: Bluetooth daemon is apparently not available.
I: module.c: Loaded module-bluetooth-discover (index: #5; argument: ).
D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of 
'/opt/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules/module-esound-protocol-unix.so': success
I: module.c: Loaded module-esound-protocol-unix (index: #6; argument: ).
I: module.c: Loaded module-native-protocol-unix (index: #7; argument: ).
D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-13 Thread Colin Guthrie 
'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 11:10 did gyre and gimble:
 On Monday 13 September 2010 09:28:22 Colin Guthrie wrote:
 'Twas brillig, and sibu xolo at 13/09/10 02:04 did gyre and gimble:
 a) I am using system5 init and alsamixer refuses to start on the CLI at
 run- level 3 reporting
 pulseaaudio' connection refused  (or somesuch)  but...

 I guess PA cannot start on the CLI for some reason. alsamixer or aplay
 should autospawn PA if it's not running (which would be typical with a
 console login).

 I suspect not being able to connect to dbus/consolekit is the problem,
 but to find out, run pulseaudio -vvv from the cli rather than aplay and
 it should tell you the reasons for not starting.
 
  here is the ooutput from running pulseaudio -vvv on the cli  BEFORE 
 kde starts

OK, you've got two problems here:


 D: cli-command.c: Checking for existance of 
 '/opt/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules/module-udev-detect.so': success
 I: module-udev-detect.c: Found 0 cards.
 I: module.c: Loaded module-udev-detect (index: #4; argument: ).

For whatever reason, udev detection has failed and is finding no cards.

This means an Auto Null sink will be loaded rather than accessing your
real h/w.

 E: x11wrap.c: XOpenDisplay() failed
 E: module.c: Failed to load  module module-x11-bell (argument: sample=bell-
 windowing-system): initialization failed.
 E: main.c: Module load failed.
 E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.

This is interesting. The directive for loading module-x11-bell was
removed from default.pa a *long* time ago, but apparently your
default.pa is still trying to load it.

But as your default.pa tries to load module-udev-detect, which was added
*after* module-x11-bell was removed, it suggests you have edited the
default.pa we ship with your own version.

If you want the x11-bell module to be loaded, you should really add it
to the /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 script instead.

You can also put the load-module line in default.pa inside a .nofail
.fail block. This will mean it will not cause daemon startup to fail,
but it obviously will not actually load the module when X11 login
actually occurs. That's why putting it in start-pulseaudio-x11 is better.

  here is the ooutput from running pacmd  ls on the cli  AFTER kde 
 starts
 
 1 sink(s) available.
   * index: 0
   name: auto_null
   driver: module-null-sink.c
   flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY FLAT_VOLUME DYNAMIC_LATENCY
   state: SUSPENDED
   suspend cause: IDLE 
   priority: 1000
   volume: 0:  60% 1:  60%
   0: -13.31 dB 1: -13.31 dB
   balance 0.00
   base volume: 100%
0.00 dB
   volume steps: 65537
   muted: no
   current latency: 0.00 ms
   max request: 1722 KiB
   max rewind: 1722 KiB
   monitor source: 0
   sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
   channel map: front-left,front-right
Stereo
   used by: 0
   linked by: 0
   configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 0.50 .. 1.00 ms
   module: 10
   properties:
   device.description = Dummy Output
   device.class = abstract
   device.icon_name = audio-card


Here is the ultimately issue. The Dummy Output. As udev-detect could not
detect any cards, you get only the dummy output.

I'm not sure why udev-detect would cause problems. I would suggest to
double check your udev setup and make sure the relevant udev rules are
present on your system. udev 147 is pretty old, perhaps a newer version
is needed (I can't remember the minimum system requirements), but certainly:
/lib/udev/rules.d/78-sound-card.rules

Should be present and should control things in this regard.

I'd certainly double check that ACLs are written properly on the
/dev/snd/* nodes (getfacl /dev/snd/*) and that your user session is
definitely listed in ck-list-sessions as being active.

Col

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[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-0.9.21, alsa-1.0.23, kde-4.4.5, consolekit, dbus

2010-09-12 Thread sibu xolo 
Greetings,

I am new to this list.  I have a computer with these:
-cpu-amd64-2 cores, dsp: HDA NVidia/Realtek ALC662 rev1 
-o/s cblfs-linux 64-bit kernel-2.6.35.4, xorg-7.5 kde-4.4.5, udev-147
-audio-progs: alsa-1.0.23. pulse-0.9.21 (default configurations in 
/etc/pulse)


my /etc/asound.conf file has these:-
==

pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}



my udev-rule for alsa looks like  this:-
==
# Give the audio group ownership of sound devices
SUBSYSTEM==sound,   GROUP=audio
SUBSYSTEM==snd, GROUP=audio

# ALSA Devices
# When a sound device is detected, restore the volume settings
KERNEL==controlC[0-9]*,  NAME=snd/%k, ACTION==add, 
RUN+=/usr/sbin/alsactl restore %n
# Sound devices
KERNEL==admmidi*,  GROUP=audio
KERNEL==adsp*, GROUP=audio
KERNEL==aload*,GROUP=audio
KERNEL==amidi*,GROUP=audio
KERNEL==amixer*,   GROUP=audio 
KERNEL==audio*,GROUP=audio 
KERNEL==dmfm*, GROUP=audio 
KERNEL==dmmidi*,   GROUP=audio 
KERNEL==dsp*,  GROUP=audio 
KERNEL==midi*, GROUP=audio 
KERNEL==mixer*,GROUP=audio
KERNEL==music, GROUP=audio
KERNEL==sequencer*,GROUP=audio
KERNEL==by-path/*, GROUP=audio
==



sound devices in /dev appear as:-
==
sx [ ~ ]# ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   80 Sep 12  2010 by-path
crw-rw 1 root audio 116,  5 Sep 12  2010 controlC0
crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 12 Sep 12  2010 controlC1
crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 11 Sep 12  2010 hwC1D0
crw-rw 1 root audio 116,  4 Sep 12  2010 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 10 Sep 12  2010 pcmC1D0c
crw-rw 1 root audio 116,  9 Sep 12  2010 pcmC1D0p
crw-rw 1 root audio 116,  8 Sep 12  2010 pcmC1D1c
crw-rw 1 root audio 116,  7 Sep 12  2010 pcmC1D1p
crw-rw 1 root audio 116,  6 Sep 12  2010 pcmC1D2c
crw-rw 1 root audio 116,  3 Sep 12  2010 seq
crw-rw 1 root audio 116,  2 Sep 12  2010 timer
sx [ ~ ]# ls -l /dev/audio
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Sep 12  2010 /dev/audio
sx [ ~ ]# ls -l /dev/dsp 
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Sep 12  2010 /dev/dsp
sx [ ~ ]# ls -l /dev/mixer*
crw-rw 1 root audio 14,  0 Sep 12  2010 /dev/mixer
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 16 Sep 12  2010 /dev/mixer1
sx [ ~ ]# ls -l /dev/audio
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Sep 12  2010 /dev/audio
sx [ ~ ]# ls -l  /usr/sbin/alsa*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  35445 Sep  1 21:09 /usr/sbin/alsaconf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 213034 Sep  1 21:09 /usr/sbin/alsactl



alsa plugins; appear as:-
==

sx [ ~ ]# ls -l /usr/lib/alsa-lib
total 1376
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11034 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_conf_pulse.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1979 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_conf_pulse.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12117 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88426 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_ctl_arcam_av.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1098 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_ctl_arcam_av.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63182 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_ctl_arcam_av.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39098 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_ctl_oss.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1063 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_ctl_oss.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32449 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_ctl_oss.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84188 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_ctl_pulse.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1972 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_ctl_pulse.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60745 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88870 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_a52.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1095 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_a52.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63461 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_a52.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41592 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_jack.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1132 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_jack.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34058 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_jack.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38126 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_oss.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1063 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_oss.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30615 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_oss.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91208 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_pulse.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1972 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_pulse.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67065 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33066 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_speex.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1122 Sep 12 21:50 libasound_module_pcm_speex.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1