Soundcards Race Condition

[Carsten Breuer]

Hi Lennart,

> Identifying sound cards by index is a thing from the past. PulseAudio
> identifies sound cards by their HAL UDI. 

I have my problems with pulseaudio, because i have studied
the documents one week every evening and was not able
to find out how to set it up.

Let me explain my setup:

My FC8-Server is in the basement and is connected with my
home entertainment with cables going from the basement
to a hole in the floor to the living room. I use CAT6-
cables with 7 meters length for USB.
This works mostly fine, but sometimes FC5 was not able
to detect the USB soundcards during boot.

My idea was exactly to use pulseaudio to stream the
audio to a thin client with linux on it (HP T5520)
over the network.

Since Fedora is not running on the thin client
(1.2 GHz, 128MB RAM), i use slackware.
I don't have X on that machine and i was not able
to setup pulseaudio. I have no problems to
build pulseaudio from sratch on that client,
but pulseaudio can do so much and all
the documentation only have examples but
no big picture for it (ok, one picture exist).

After a week without any success i have
dumped the thin client idea and wanted to go
back to the USB-Solution.

I like the idea to use pulseaudio but i have
no glue how to set it up. I don't want to
use AVAHI. I want a static configuration where
2 stereo channels for the two mpd's are transmitted
to the thin client where 2 sound cards are available.

Can't you guide me in the right direction what i
have to setup in default.pa, client.conf and daemon.conf?
That would be great :-).


Best Regards and thank's a lot,



Carsten