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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:38:05
Message-Id: ht8ifv$5rc$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get PulseAudio to work by David W Noon
1 On 05/22/2010 02:37 PM, David W Noon wrote:
2 > On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:10:02 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about
3 > [gentoo-user] Can't get PulseAudio to work:
4 >
5 > [snip]
6 >> I rebooted with an ALSA-enabled kernel and with OSSv4 completely
7 >> removed. But it doesn't work; everything can use ALSA OK, but not PA.
8 >> For example, "mplayer -ao pulse video.mkv" says:
9 >>
10 >> socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
11 >>
12 >> What now?
13 >
14 > Have you started the PulseAudio daemon?
15
16 There is none:
17
18 ls /etc/init.d/*pulse*
19 ls: cannot access /etc/init.d/*pulse*: No such file or directory
20
21 but it seems to start on its own, and in any case I solved that issue as
22 I wrote in my other post.