Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

I decided to test PulseAudio on Gentoo since someone claimed the reason
PulseAudio has a "it blows chunks" reputation because of Ubuntu shipping
it with a broken configuration.


So, I did:

USE="alsa pulseaudio -oss" emerge -auDNl --with-bdeps=y world

This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.


I also took a look at this:

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio

and did the "usermod -a -G plugdev pulse" thing.

I rebooted with an ALSA-enabled kernel and with OSSv4 completely
removed. But it doesn't work; everything can use ALSA OK, but not PA.
For example, "mplayer -ao pulse video.mkv" says:


socket(): Address family not supported by protocol

What now?

Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.
>

sure?

Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:


This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.



sure?


Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.html

PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a
dep :-/ Will file a bug about it.


As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot
compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix
though, which is surprising.


Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but
there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend.
The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops
and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried to
set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no sound.

Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
> >> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.
> >
> > sure?
>
> Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.html
>
> PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a
> dep :-/ Will file a bug about it.
>
> As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot
> compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix
> though, which is surprising.
>
> Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but
> there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend.
> The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops
> and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried to
> set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no sound.

yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA.

Why again are you wasting your time with PA?

Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.


sure?


Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.html

PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a
dep :-/ Will file a bug about it.

As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot
compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix
though, which is surprising.

Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but
there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend.
The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops
and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried to
set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no sound.


yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA.


"audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/



Why again are you wasting your time with PA?


Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4. So I ought to
actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup",
or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about.

Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >>>> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
> >>>> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.
> >>>
> >>> sure?
> >>
> >> Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot:
> >>
> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.htm
> >> l
> >>
> >> PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a
> >> dep :-/ Will file a bug about it.
> >>
> >> As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot
> >> compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix
> >> though, which is surprising.
> >>
> >> Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but
> >> there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend.
> >> The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops
> >> and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried to
> >> set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no
> >> sound.
> >
> > yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA.
>
> "audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/
>
> > Why again are you wasting your time with PA?
>
> Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4. So I ought to
> actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup",
> or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about.

really? There are people claiming that? ok, everything is better than OSS4 -
but PA? That crap is almost as bad as ESD.

Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:10:02 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about
[gentoo-user] Can't get PulseAudio to work:

[snip]
>I rebooted with an ALSA-enabled kernel and with OSSv4 completely
>removed. But it doesn't work; everything can use ALSA OK, but not PA.
>For example, "mplayer -ao pulse video.mkv" says:
>
> socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
>
>What now?

Have you started the PulseAudio daemon?
--
Regards,

Dave [RLU #314465]
================================================== ====================
dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon)
================================================== ====================

Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.


sure?


Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.htm
l

PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a
dep :-/ Will file a bug about it.

As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot
compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix
though, which is surprising.

Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but
there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend.
The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops
and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried to
set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no
sound.


yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA.


"audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/


Why again are you wasting your time with PA?


Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4. So I ought to
actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup",
or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about.


really? There are people claiming that? ok, everything is better than OSS4 -
but PA? That crap is almost as bad as ESD.


Well if I'm going to use ALSA I need something that gives me
per-application volume control since ALSA is too broken to even provide
that while the rest of the world moved on.

Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

On 05/22/2010 02:37 PM, David W Noon wrote:

On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:10:02 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about
[gentoo-user] Can't get PulseAudio to work:

[snip]

I rebooted with an ALSA-enabled kernel and with OSSv4 completely
removed. But it doesn't work; everything can use ALSA OK, but not PA.
For example, "mplayer -ao pulse video.mkv" says:

socket(): Address family not supported by protocol

What now?


Have you started the PulseAudio daemon?


There is none:

ls /etc/init.d/*pulse*
ls: cannot access /etc/init.d/*pulse*: No such file or directory

but it seems to start on its own, and in any case I solved that issue as
I wrote in my other post.

Can't get PulseAudio to work
 

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >>>> On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>>>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >>>>>> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
> >>>>>> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> sure?
> >>>>
> >>>> Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.h
> >>>> tm l
> >>>>
> >>>> PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as
> >>>> a dep :-/ Will file a bug about it.
> >>>>
> >>>> As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot
> >>>> compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone
> >>>> ALSA+dmix though, which is surprising.
> >>>>
> >>>> Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but
> >>>> there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend.
> >>>> The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops
> >>>> and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried
> >>>> to set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still
> >>>> no sound.
> >>>
> >>> yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA.
> >>
> >> "audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/
> >>
> >>> Why again are you wasting your time with PA?
> >>
> >> Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4. So I ought to
> >> actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup",
> >> or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about.
> >
> > really? There are people claiming that? ok, everything is better than
> > OSS4 - but PA? That crap is almost as bad as ESD.
>
> Well if I'm going to use ALSA I need something that gives me
> per-application volume control since ALSA is too broken to even provide
> that while the rest of the world moved on.

funny how I can change the volume in wesnoth or vlc, independent from the
rest. You are blaming the wrong people here.