[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#519705: Additional info + correction

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:12:06PM -0400, Jan Muszynski wrote:
> Not quite as bad as I previously stated. I had a setting wrong in
> adacious and it does work in 14-2 using the pulseaudio interface.
> However the ESD interface is dead in 14.2 across the board.

The biggest change in -2 was the move to per-user esound socket, if your
installed esound was still trying to use a global one that would have caused
the issue.

> The Tests also fail for alsa and oss in 14-1. Since Pulse is
> controlling everything I suspect that this part makes sense. So
> perhaps this bug should really be against the esound-compat plugin.

Yes, everything should go through pulseaudio which is the only application
directly accessing your sound card. http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup has
information on how to set this up correctly.

> One additional data point. In Pulse Audio Manager, in the Client tab,
> both 14-1 and 14-2 list a Console Kit Session, a XSMP session, and a
> Pilse Audio Manager Session. However that's ALL that 14-2 gas. 14-1
> though also has about 19 entries for   "EsounD Client (Unix socket
> client)". 14-2 has none. The sample Cache tab for 14-1 has a number of
> entries for different esound.gtk-events-2/<system sound>. 14-2 is
> empty. All the other tabs in Pulse Audio Manager appear to be
> identical.

That would be explained by your esound not working.

Closing this bug as it doesn't seem to be a pulseaudio one, if it still occurs
with recent versions of esound please reopen it.

  Sjoerd
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