Pulseaudio

RAFAL · 08-21-2008, 02:02 PM

Hi,

After I started to use OpenSUSE 11 I face problems with Pulseaudio.
It happens quite often that I cannot control sound volume.
When I double click the button (volume control) it says:
Connection failed: connection refused

In terminal I observe following:

Code:

rafal@linux-39sr:~/Desktop> pulseaudio -D
W: core-util.c: setpriority(): Brak dostępu
rafal@linux-39sr:~/Desktop>

"Brak dostępu" means "Permission denied".

When I start XMMS I can here the sound and even control the volume with pulse. The only problem is that if I double click on the control button there is the message "Connection failed: connection refused".

Restarting PC not always help. I think the problem could be after I install some new packages.

Since ALSA works fine, when I restart it, it does not help:

Code:

linux-39sr:/home/rafal/Desktop # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
Shutting down sound driver            done
Starting sound driver:  hda-intel     done

/var/log/messages says:

Code:

Aug 21 20:30:37 linux-39sr gnomesu-pam-backend: pam_unix2(gnomesu-pam:auth): conversation failed
Aug 21 20:30:48 linux-39sr pulseaudio[4196]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Aug 21 20:30:48 linux-39sr pulseaudio[4196]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operacja niedozwolona
Aug 21 20:30:48 linux-39sr pulseaudio[4196]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operacja niedozwolona

(...)

Aug 21 20:44:53 linux-39sr pulseaudio[4949]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Aug 21 20:44:53 linux-39sr pulseaudio[4949]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

When I check here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=359441, then for me it looks like solved bug, but in fact it isn't.

What can I do/check in order to solve it?
It really annoys me, because whenever it happens I cannot use SKYPE (it says there is problem with audio)

regards
Rafal

RAFAL · 08-23-2008, 04:28 AM

Unfortunatelly nobody interested in this thread ;-(

I have tested with pulse audio 0.9.10.0

Code:

rafal@linux-39sr:/dane/rapid> pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 0.9.10

...and pulseaudio 0.9.10.26.3 available from Suse-updates page.
Strange , because this version was released in March 2008 and on the page pulseaudio.org I found version 0.9.11 from 2008-07-24, which I gonna to test now.
I have found rpm's here: http://software.opensuse.org/search (pulseaudio-0.9.11-4.1.i586.rpm). Strage that it is not visible via YaST (apparently another repository)

Sad to say but if I compare sound recording quality with Windows , then Linux is worse.

regards
Rafal

sycamorex · 08-23-2008, 05:06 AM

I know that it doesn't solve your problem, but when I had problems with pulseaudio, after a week of struggling
with it, I just removed pulseaudio and used good old alsa.

RAFAL · 08-23-2008, 05:23 AM

not bad idea.
First I will give a new version of pulseaudio a chance, then will think what next

RAFAL · 08-23-2008, 05:42 AM

not good ;-(
after pulseaudio update skype (2.0.0.72) is not working anymore:

Code:

rafal@linux-39sr:~/Desktop> skype
skype: pcm_pulse.c:296: pulse_write: Warunek zapewnienia `pcm->last_size >= (size * pcm->frame_size)' nie został spełniony.
Przerwane

"Warunek" means condition. It was not met (`pcm->last_size >= (size * pcm->frame_size)').

reinstallation of Skype does not help ;-(

any ideas?

RAFAL · 08-23-2008, 05:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RAFAL

skype (2.0.0.72) is not working anymore:

I have found bad news here (similar problem);
http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-.../msg70472.html

Quote:

You're wasting your time. skype is closed-source. There's no debuginfo
and we can't fix any problems in it.

Talk to skype about it. We can't help you fix closed-source software.

Maybe http://support.skype.com/ will help.

RAFAL · 08-23-2008, 01:57 PM

I was able to make skype working again.

Here what I have done:
- I unistalled skype
- I removed .Skype from my home folder. This is important!
- I installed skype

Now, when I type skype I am able to run the program, but whenever I change audio settings in skype to pulse it gives me this error:

Quote:

rafal@linux-39sr:~/Desktop> skype
skype: pcm_pulse.c:296: pulse_write: Warunek zapewnienia `pcm->last_size >= (size * pcm->frame_size)' nie został spełniony.
Przerwane

...so for me this confirms that skype problem is definitely connected to pulse

RAFAL · 08-23-2008, 03:37 PM

I uninstalled Pulseaudio from my computer (thanks sycamorex!)...and suddenly :
- skype works fine ;-)
- recorded sound quality is much much better ! ;-) and there are no noices when I call with skype
- no crashes with "pcm_pulse.c:296: pulse_write" ;-) (not only skype crashed...Real Player did the same)

The only problem was, that I had to remove volume control button from the desktop and to make new to "gnome-volume-control". In addition I had to reinstall XMMS, because it crashed otherwise (probably was looking for pulse).

regards
Rafal