On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 12:49:44 Jérémy Zurcher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the mixer launches pulseaudio if not running then thies to connect to
> it,it enventually falls back to alsa backend on failure
>
> On Thursday 26 June 2014 11:06, Mick wrote :
> > I've recently installed pulseaudio because skype decided to have a hard
> > dependency on it.
> >
> > I am trying to understand how it is supposed to work, since its effects
> > are not transparent on my system. Sometimes the mixer will show all the
> > various audio sinks and sources (headphones, PCM, Master, Capture, Mic,
> > etc.) that
>
> > good ol' alsa used to show. Other times it will only list:
> the below it the poor pulse backend
>
> > RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series] Digital Stereo (HDMI)
> > Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
> > Monitor of RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series] Digital Stereo
> > (HDMI) Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
> > Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
Are you saying that this happens when pulseaudio is not working properly?
> there are opened issues:
> https://phab.enlightenment.org/T1059
> https://phab.enlightenment.org/T1299
Hmm ... I need to get another passwd to be able to login in this page.
> > The problem is that the second headphone jack is always zeroed and muted
> > - actually it winds down to zero and mutes itself before my eyes if I
> > launch Skype.
>
> try to start pulseaudio before launching e,
> that should confirm that there is an issue in the way mixer thrie to get
> in touch with pulse
OK, I started pulseaudio from the console with '/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start'
and then started e. I found that there were two pulseaudio processes running
afterwards. So, pulseaudio is started regardless.
In any case, I found these errors in syslog:
Jun 26 20:50:40 dell_xps dbus[1385]: [system] Activating service
name='org.bluez' (using servicehelper)
Jun 26 20:50:40 dell_xps pulseaudio[3401]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c:
Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to
autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
Jun 26 20:50:40 dell_xps pulseaudio[3401]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to
contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a
dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
Jun 26 20:50:40 dell_xps dbus[1385]: [system] Activated service 'org.bluez'
failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
Jun 26 20:50:40 dell_xps pulseaudio[3401]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c:
GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited:
Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
Jun 26 20:50:42 dell_xps kernel: ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: reused qh
ffff8800c2166d00 schedule
Jun 26 20:50:42 dell_xps kernel: usb 2-1.2: link qh8-0601/ffff8800c2166d00
start 2 [1/2 us]
Jun 26 20:50:44 dell_xps dhcpcd[3345]: enp11s0: no IPv6 Routers available
Jun 26 20:50:50 dell_xps dbus[1385]: [system] Activating service
name='org.freedesktop.UDisks2' (using servicehelper)
Jun 26 20:50:50 dell_xps udisksd[3518]: udisks daemon version 2.1.3 starting
Jun 26 20:50:50 dell_xps dbus[1385]: [system] Successfully activated service
'org.freedesktop.UDisks2'
Jun 26 20:50:50 dell_xps udisksd[3518]: Acquired the name
org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
Jun 26 20:51:30 dell_xps dbus[1385]: [system] Activating service
name='org.freedesktop.UPower' (using servicehelper)
Jun 26 20:51:30 dell_xps dbus[1385]: [system] Successfully activated service
'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Jun 26 20:51:31 dell_xps dbus[1385]: [system] Activating service
name='org.bluez' (using servicehelper)
Jun 26 20:51:31 dell_xps dbus[1385]: [system] Activated service 'org.bluez'
failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
Jun 26 20:51:31 dell_xps pulseaudio[3623]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c:
GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited:
Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
Not sure what the dbus problem is here ... :-/
--
Regards,
Mick
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