Pulseaudio 2.0

[edge226]

The Pulse audio people were bragging that 1.1 > 2.0 was a huge deal, can we get the upgrade please.

[fanthom]

please test this package:
link
if all will be ok then i pull it to the official repo.

[edge226]

First off the package did not draw all the dependencies, Here is what was missing.
json-c-0.9-x86_64-1_SBo.xzm
libasyncns-0.8-x86_64-1_SBo.xzm
orc-0.4.16-x86_64-1sl.xzm
speex-1.2rc1-x86_64-5sl.xzm

Secondly I receive a Daemon startup Error when trying to launch the daemon.
$ pulseaudio --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
$ start-pulseaudio-kde
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

[fanthom]

sorry for not mentioning deps. i thought you'll be upgrading your existing setup from pulseaudio-1.1 to 2.0

please try to reboot with pulseaudio-2.0 (make sure you remove old 1.1 module) placed in /porteus/modules folder.
i found that pulseaudio-2.0 does not need any systemd/rc.* files as it's started through *.desktop files in autorun folders (/etc/xdg/autostart for lxde and /usr/share/autostart for kde4).

please run 'ps aux | grep pulseaudio' to check if it's really running.

Thanks

[edge226]

There was no 1.1 because I did a clean install of porteus 1.2 and did not bother with PA 1.1.

ps aux | grep pulseaudio returned with one entry from grep pulseaudio, Guess its not initializing yet,

Posted after 28 minutes 40 seconds:
I thought that installing the alsa plugins may aid in the issue, once I did that I got this error afterwards, it looks as if it is looking for PA 1.1 still.

$ pulseaudio --start
pulseaudio: relocation error: /usr/lib64/libpulsecore-1.1.so: symbol pa_format_info_to_sample_spec_fake, version PULSE_0 not defined in file libpulse.so.0 with link time reference

[fanthom]

i think you haven't resolve all the deps as PA-2.0 it's working fine here:
http://oi48.tinypic.com/2rmtl4w.jpg

i'll be updating the repo today with pulseaudio-2.0 and alsa-plugins (although this package is not necessary for getting PA to work).
gonna also push mplayer recompiled with PA support a it's used everywhere: phonon, smplayer, gnome-mplayer, qmmp (video only).

be aware that when pavucontrol is opened or PA-compatible app is playing sound then non-PA compatible apps stops working (skype, firefox+youtube, qmmp-audio, etc) as PA keep the sound device busy.

btw: anybody knows how is this problem solved in Ubuntu/Fedora/etc ?

[edge226]

The daemon runs, pavucontrol runs, HDMI audio still does not work... why does this always have to be such a fight getting this to work...

Posted after 17 hours 5 minutes 35 seconds:
Sound success, needed to have the following added to ~/.asoundrc and all sound works, even firefox + youtube and such.

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pcm.!default {
    type pulse
    # If defaults.namehint.showall is set to off in alsa.conf, then this is
    # necessary to make this pcm show up in the list returned by
    # snd_device_name_hint or aplay -L
    hint.description "Default Audio Device"
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

[sci_fi]

@edge226

Could you please explain further? I used rootcopy to include .asoundrc as you indicated. I still only get sound on my notebook speakers but not to my tv via hdmi.

Do I need to configure using Pulseaudio? Also, I installed the 64bit xzm file for pavucontrol, but get unresolved dependencies. Haven't sorted that out yet.

Any suggestions most welcome.

Thank you and best regards,

sci_fi

[edge226]

Ill start by showing you the base modules that I installed via ppm, it should deal with your dependency resolution correctly.

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ls pulseaudio-* pavu* alsa*
alsa-plugins-1.0.25-x86_64-1_SBo.xzm  pulseaudio-1.1-x86_64-1_SBo.xzm
pavucontrol-1.0-x86_64-1ftm.xzm       pulseaudio-2.0-x86_64-2ftm.xzm

Update your ~/.asoundrc as I posted for your user.

Use pavucontrol to find the correct stream, I just happened to have it set correctly when I updated my ~/.asoundrc and rebooted to the wonderful sound of booting up.

[sci_fi]

@edge226

Thanks for the advice. I have pulseaudio and pavucontrol running.

A question. Using them were you able to get audio out hdmi to an external device (in my case an hdtv). HDMI Video, of course, worked out of the box. I am still trying to get audio and am hoping pulseaudio and pavucontrol are the means.

Thanks again.

sci_fi

[edge226]

@sci_fi Yes I have succeeded doing this, I currently output to an HDTV through HDMI. I assume you say it works meaning the video works, however it is the audio that is usually a fight.

This article is a great help. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar ... rfectSetup

[sci_fi]

@edge226

Thank you for the link to the article. It seems very complete. I shall start working with it this evening.
Yes, as you surmised, I have video thru hdmi but no audio. Hopefully, the article will get me there. Certainly nice to know that someone has done this successfully.

I will post the results, but it may be a few days.

Thanks again.

sci_fi

[edge226]

PA 2.0 really did resolve a lot, it needed to be patched in 1.1 to work. Now the streams are set correctly without a patch required.

[sci_fi]

@edge226
Thank you for all of your help.

I can report success with hdmi audio. There probably are more elegant solutions, but this is working for me:

Details below:
System details:
Acer AO-722, 64 bit
Porteus 1.2 64bit

What I did:
1. Install Pulseaudio
2. Install Pavucontrol
3. Install alsa-plugins
4. Modify ~/.asoundrc (see details below)
In a console "aplay -l" will give a list of audio cards.
Note the card and device number of the hdmi device. This pair, card #, device number, should be used in ~/ .asoundrc.

Contents of ~/.asoundrc
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pcm.!default {
type pulse
# If defaults.namehint.showall is set to off in alsa.conf, then this is
# necessary to make this pcm show up in the list returned by
# snd_device_name_hint or aplay -L
hint.description "Default Audio Device"
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}

pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,3" #####Use your card and device number#####
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}

ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 0
}
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5. Reboot
6. Run pavucontrol.
Select output devices tag.
Insure that the hdmi device is set as the default/fallback device. (click button on right side)

7. Play an audio file. It should be audible on your hdmi device.
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To make hdmi the default output device for audio (if it is not already):
In a console type: pacmd list-sinks
(Note the index of your hdmi output card)

Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa
Near the bottom of the file is a commented out command: #set-default-sink N
Make the command active by deleting the “#”.
Replace N with the index of your hdmi card
Reboot
hdmi should now the the default audio output
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Here are some url's I found helpful:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar ... rfectSetup (thanks to edge226)
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar ... aultDevice
http://linux.die.net/man/5/default.pa
http://linux.die.net/man/5/pulse-client.conf
http://linux.die.net/man/5/pulse-daemon.conf
http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/PulseAudio#Co ... ulse_Audio
http://superuser.com/questions/210617/h ... -boot-ubun

[edge226]

good to hear that you got everything working however you should not have needed to CLI to modify your sinks and such since this is the purpose of pavucontrol.