[LAU] Round 4: [was Re: Report: Pulse Audio vs Jack on Fedora 11]

After my little issue with the kernel oops I decided to make sure my system was fully upto date. I ran yum update and got a new kernel as part of the update. 1: pulseaudio -k 2: pulseaudio -D 3: Notice that the gnome volume icon is displaying as muted. 4: Adjust the volume setting and unmute check box but icon doesn't change and the slider is still set to mute when I check it. 5: Open gnome-volume-control (Sound Preferences) 6: Set output volume to not mute, raise volume level to full. Gnome volume icon still showing mute. Oh well. 3: Test a song with totem. Success. Audio plays fine. Next phase: 1: Pause Totem. Verify that the audio stream disappears from the Applications tab in (Sound Preferences) panel 2: pulseaudio -k 3: qjackctl 4: press start and jackd starts playing 5: Restart pulse audio with the following command pulseaudio -D -n -F ~/jackd.pa (* see below for script) 6: Pulse i/o's show up in qjackctl connections panel 7: System load is stable at < 10% 8: Check already running "Sound Preferences" ui to see if the jack i/o's show up. Nothing. 9: Restart "Sound Preferences". Notice that pulse output has disappeared from qjackctl connections. Input is still working. Can also see the jack source in the input tab in "Sound Preferences". 10: Restart "Sound Preferences". Pulse input disappears from qjackctl input connections. 11: pulseaudio -k 12: pulseaudio -D -nF ~/jackd.pa 13: Pulse Audio input reappears in qjackctl input connections panel. No output. jack-source shows in the "Sound Preferences" input panel. No jack-sink in the output panel. 14: Volume icon still muted... Winner: Jack. High points to Pulse for trying to interface. Unstable results. Possibly due to bugs in gnome-volume-control or the pulse audio jack modules. Linux version 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64 jack - 0.116.1 pulse audio - 0.9.15 Qt: 4.5.2 QjackCtl: 0.3.4 gnome-volume-control 2.26.0 Ding. Time out for Round 5. Next round let's update Pulse Audio to the latest dev version. (*) ~/jackd.pa Basically a copy of /etc/pulse/default.pa but with module-jack-sink and module-jack-source defined ========================================= #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF # # This file is part of PulseAudio. # # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, # Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. # This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user # (i.e. not in system mode) .nofail ### Load something into the sample cache #load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav #load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav #load-sample-lazy pulse-coldplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav #load-sample-lazy pulse-access /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav .fail ### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices load-module module-device-restore load-module module-stream-restore ### Load audio drivers statically (it's probably better to not load ### these drivers manually, but instead use module-hal-detect -- ### see below -- for doing this automatically) #load-module module-alsa-sink #load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0 #load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input #load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input #load-module module-null-sink #load-module module-pipe-sink load-module module-jack-sink load-module module-jack-source ### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available .ifexists module-hal-detect.so load-module module-hal-detect .else ### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that ### lack HAL support) load-module module-detect .endif ### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware #.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so #load-module module-bluetooth-discover #.endif ### Load several protocols .ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so load-module module-esound-protocol-unix .endif load-module module-native-protocol-unix ### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented ### here if you plan to use paprefs) #load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp #load-module module-native-protocol-tcp #load-module module-zeroconf-publish ### Load the RTP reciever module (also configured via paprefs, see above) #load-module module-rtp-recv ### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above) #load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 description="RTP Multicast Sink" #load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor ### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user during runtime load-module module-default-device-restore ### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are ### connected to dies, similar for sources load-module module-rescue-streams ### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink. load-module module-always-sink ### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long load-module module-suspend-on-idle ### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit ### when no local session needs us anymore. load-module module-console-kit ### Enable positioned event sounds load-module module-position-event-sounds ### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool. ### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually ### loaded modules. .ifexists module-gconf.so .nofail load-module module-gconf .fail .endif # X11 modules should not be started from default.pa so that one daemon # can be shared by multiple sessions. ### Load X11 bell module #load-module module-x11-bell sample=bell-windowing-system ### Register ourselves in the X11 session manager #load-module module-x11-xsmp ### Publish connection data in the X11 root window #.ifexists module-x11-publish.so #.nofail #load-module module-x11-publish #.fail #.endif ### Make some devices default #set-default-sink output #set-default-source input ========================================= Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd