PulseAudio is now enabled by default on new Fedora installs

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 25.08.07 23:44, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn (d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de) wrote:

> I tried this but when pulseaudio tries to start I get the following output 
> in the syslog:
> 
> Aug 25 23:17:57 nexus pulseaudio[2956]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find mixer 
> control "Master".
> Aug 25 23:17:57 nexus pulseaudio[2956]: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback 
> mixer control "PCM".
> Aug 25 23:17:58 nexus pulseaudio[2956]: module-alsa-sink.c: Failed to set 
> hardware parameters: Operation not permitted
> Aug 25 23:17:58 nexus pulseaudio[2956]: module.c: Failed to load  module 
> "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device=hw:0 
> sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1412_1712_alsa_playback_0"): initialization 
> failed.
> Aug 25 23:17:58 nexus pulseaudio[2956]: module-alsa-source.c: Failed to set 
> hardware parameters: Operation not permitted
> Aug 25 23:17:58 nexus pulseaudio[2956]: module.c: Failed to load  module 
> "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device=hw:0 
> source_name=alsa_input.pci_1412_1712_alsa_capture_0"): initialization 
> failed.
> 
> I'm not sure what to make of this and how to fix it.

Hmm, PA gets an "Operation not permitted" error when trying to open
the audio devices. Looks like a permission issue. May other
applications open the that specific audio device?

i.e. does "aplay -D plughw:0 < /dev/urandom"  work?

Lennart

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