Pulseaudio...

Xtigyro · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 8

Hi!!

(I'm very new to the Gentoo world and it's really difficult for me to manage with all these configuration "tweaks"...)

The issue... I installed:
1. pulseaudio (emerge pulseaudio paprefs pavucontrol padevchooser pavumeter),
2. gst-plugins-pulse
3. gpasswd -a USER pulse
4. gpasswd -a USER pulse-access
5. created .asoundrc file with these line :

pcm.!default {
type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
type pulse
}

6. eselect esd list; eselect esd set 1

However, my system is still muted. When you start "System > Preferences > Sound", there is a dialogue message "Waiting for sound system to respond" and it stays there with no actual response from the sound system.

Maybe it's already clear but i just want to specify that Gnome 2.26 (from "stable") is in use. In the beginning of the installation I installed only gnome-light. So I think that maybe there is something else I have to install in order to make the "pulse" work for me, right?

Any ideas, folks?

Kind regards,
Miro Hadzhiev

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

As Gnome is aimed at an user daemon,
neither 'pulse' nor pulse-access should be required (in Gnome 2.26, neither should be esd).

Let's start with trivial things:
1. 'emerge -1pv pulseaudio' to see your useflags
2. check if the deamon is running, if it's not, while
in X, 'start-pulseaudio-x11' should work fine
3. check your syslog
4. if daemon is starting then quitting without any obvious reason,
start in in a terminal with verbose output ('pulseaudio -vvvv', IIRC)

Xtigyro · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 8

Thanks, VoidMage.

Here is the information:

1.
media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.19 USE="X alsa asyncns avahi bluetooth caps dbus glib gnome hal ipv6 tcpd udev -doc -jack -libsamplerate -lirc (-oss) -test"

I used these flags after installing 'pulseaudio' without any flags and it was not working again. I found these flags here - http://duckzland.ismywebsite.com/about/pulseaudio-and-gentoo/ .

2.
"miro@Xtigyro ~ $ start-pulseaudio-x11
E: main.c: Daemon startup failed."

...
"miro@Xtigyro ~ $ pulseaudio -vvvv
I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: No such file or directory
I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.19
D: main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
D: main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -march=core2 -O2 -pipe -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 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 #3 SMP Tue Dec 22 01:39:08 EET 2009
D: main.c: Found 2 CPUs.
I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: main.c: All asserts enabled.
I: main.c: Machine ID is f4e2794435335921e3d5b8dd4b2fda92.
I: main.c: Using runtime directory /home/miro/.pulse/f4e2794435335921e3d5b8dd4b2fda92-runtime.
I: main.c: Using state directory /home/miro/.pulse.
I: main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib64/pulse-0.9.19/modules.
I: main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed."

Here you are! Now what?

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

Could you install pavucontrol ?
It has some annoying deps, but it's quite convenient.
Short of that, look at alsamixer (both pulse control and your card)
to see if anything's muted and on pacmd outputs.
Just to make sure, you're NOT using that initscript (you really shouldn't be) ?

Xtigyro · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 8

'pavucontrol' is already installed.

'alsamixer' is not installed. I think that actually 'alsa' is not installed also. Should I install it?

'pacmd':
" Xtigyro miro # pacmd
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. "

Which initscript? I guess you mean "/etc/init.d/pulseaudio"? No, I do not! (:

I also use this linking:
" ln -sf /usr/bin/esdcompat /usr/bin/esd "

Thanks again! I hope that we will resolve this annoying issue because I really like Gentoo (I was SUSE user, then Ubuntu,... Debian, then Arch Linux and now I'm here... (((: )

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

Something smells fishy here.
What cards are listed in /proc/asound ?
Are alsa-libs and alsa-utils installed ?
Is alsasound started in boot runlevel ?

Also, pulseaudio daemon seems to be both started and not:
pacmd should not fail. Do you see anything interesting in pavucontrol
(especially in the last tab (devices)) ?

Xtigyro · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 8

Xtigyro miro # ls /proc/asound
" Intel card0 cards devices hwdep oss pcm seq timers version "

* media-libs/alsa-lib
Latest version available: 1.0.20-r1
Latest version installed: 1.0.20-r1
* media-sound/alsa-utils
Latest version available: 1.0.20-r5
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]

I'll install it right now.

Nope. I didn't remember assigning 'alsasound' to start at boot time. It is not automatically assigned, isn't it?

Pulseaudio volume control says: "Connection failed: Connection refused".

Xtigyro · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 8

VoidMage, THANKS, MAN!!

After installing alsa-utils, unmuting the sound through 'alsamixer' as root (it returns an error if it is started as a normal user, I don't know why...) and then 'alsactl store' as root again... the sound system now works!

I really appreciate your help, thanks again.

However, I don't understand why alsa is not installed as a dependency of 'pulseaudio'...

Jaglover · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject:

Your user is not in audio group.

Xtigyro · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 8

It, of course, is.

/etc/group
" audio::18:miro,pulse "

The error is as follows:

miro@Xtigyro ~ $ alsamixer
ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused

However, there is obviously a problem with the permissions. Jaglover, maybe you are right to some extent.

Xtigyro · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 8

I think that 'alsa' is in use now, not 'pulseaudio'. That's why there is sound.

.......... .......

Maybe Gentoo Linux is not for me, there is toooooo much tweaking. I've spent so far much more time tweaking and "make it work" than actually using the system.

Xtigyro · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 8

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

Just a minor detail: did you relogin since adding your user to audio group ?
As for alsa, alsa-lib is a dep of pulseaudio (optional, but on a standard system obvious).
alsa-utils are covered by alsa guide.
Does anything get into syslog ?
You may try to kill currently running daemon ('pulseaudio -k')
and run with '-vvvv' to see why it fails to connect.

01allein · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject:

USE="alsa gstreamer". Do not use pulseaudio It has always given me problems.

Did you install alsa-utils to get alsaconf && alsamixer?

daseinhorn · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jan 2009 Posts: 150 Location: Canada

pigeon768 · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 683

Pulseaudio is utter trash. Alsa just works. Just roll with it.

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

daseinhorn · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jan 2009 Posts: 150 Location: Canada

I want to experience Pulseaudio with Wine and my other applications on AMD64. I followed these guides :

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

Results..

pizzach · Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 195

drescherjm · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:44 am Post subject:

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

daseinhorn · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jan 2009 Posts: 150 Location: Canada

daseinhorn · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jan 2009 Posts: 150 Location: Canada

I fixed my pulseaudio issues by running these commands:

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

Strange, AFAIKCT that's how that file should be in the first place.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject: