pulseaudio no output devices

XTRMan1 · 2010-01-06 04:14:54

Hello i'm completely new to pulseaudio and can't seem to get it working. i have followed the directions on the wiki but am not getting any output devices. Alsa however worked perfectly before i installed pulseaudio.
Heres my default.pa:

#!/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-module module-card-restore

### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files
### stored in /usr/share/application
load-module module-augment-properties

### 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 device=hw:0
load-module module-alsa-source device=hw: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

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
#.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
#load-module module-udev-detect
#.else
### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that
### lack udev 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

### 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

### 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

### Honour intended role device property
load-module module-intended-roles

### 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

### Cork music streams when a phone stream is active
load-module module-cork-music-on-phone

# 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

Heres the output from pulseaudio -vv:
I: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
I: core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: No such file or directory
I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.21
D: main.c: Compilation host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
D: main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Winline -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
D: main.c: Running on host: Linux i686 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:48:17 CET 2009
D: main.c: Found 1 CPUs.
I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: main.c: Running in VM: no
D: main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: main.c: All asserts enabled.
I: main.c: Machine ID is 76cc37f2523563b2d2b0680e4b342e4d.
I: main.c: Session ID is 76cc37f2523563b2d2b0680e4b342e4d-1262748891.408109-1925402176.
I: main.c: Using runtime directory /home/xtr/.pulse/76cc37f2523563b2d2b0680e4b342e4d-runtime.
I: main.c: Using state directory /home/xtr/.pulse.
I: main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules.
I: main.c: Running in system mode: no
I: main.c: Fresh high-resolution timers available! Bon appetit!
I: cpu-x86.c: CPU flags: MMX SSE SSE2
I: svolume_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized functions.
I: remap_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized remappers.
I: svolume_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized functions.
I: remap_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized remappers.
I: sconv_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized conversions.
D: memblock.c: Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
D: database-tdb.c: Opened TDB database '/home/xtr/.pulse/76cc37f2523563b2d2b0680e4b342e4d-device-volumes.tdb'
I: module-device-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file '/home/xtr/.pulse/76cc37f2523563b2d2b0680e4b342e4d-device-volumes'.
I: module.c: Loaded "module-device-restore" (index: #0; argument: "").
D: database-tdb.c: Opened TDB database '/home/xtr/.pulse/76cc37f2523563b2d2b0680e4b342e4d-stream-volumes.tdb'
I: module-stream-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file '/home/xtr/.pulse/76cc37f2523563b2d2b0680e4b342e4d-stream-volumes'.
I: module.c: Loaded "module-stream-restore" (index: #1; argument: "").
D: database-tdb.c: Opened TDB database '/home/xtr/.pulse/76cc37f2523563b2d2b0680e4b342e4d-card-database.tdb'
I: module-card-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file '/home/xtr/.pulse/76cc37f2523563b2d2b0680e4b342e4d-card-database'.
I: module.c: Loaded "module-card-restore" (index: #2; argument: "").
I: module.c: Loaded "module-augment-properties" (index: #3; argument: "").
D: dbus-util.c: Successfully connected to D-Bus session bus 9fb05ab005e5694d2bd6a84f4b4404df as :1.26
D: reserve-wrap.c: Successfully acquired reservation lock on device 'Audio0'
D: reserve-wrap.c: Successfully create reservation lock monitor for device 'Audio0'
D: alsa-util.c: Trying hw:0 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
I: (alsa-lib)pcm_hw.c: Invalid value for card
I: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such file or directory
E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device=hw:0"): initialization failed.
E: main.c: Module load failed.
E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
I: module.c: Unloading "module-device-restore" (index: #0).
I: module.c: Unloaded "module-device-restore" (index: #0).
D: core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: module.c: Unloading "module-stream-restore" (index: #1).
I: module.c: Unloaded "module-stream-restore" (index: #1).
D: core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: module.c: Unloading "module-card-restore" (index: #2).
I: module.c: Unloaded "module-card-restore" (index: #2).
D: core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: module.c: Unloading "module-augment-properties" (index: #3).
I: module.c: Unloaded "module-augment-properties" (index: #3).
D: core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: main.c: Daemon terminated.

XTRMan1 · 2010-01-06 05:33:09

Nevermind. I just had to reboot for some reason.

ngoonee · 2010-01-06 05:48:15

Please don't manually load module-alsa-sink/source. Use module-udev-detect (don't comment it out, and comment out the module-alsa-sink/source lines) instead, it will detect everything for you.

And you don't really need to reboot, just restart pulseaudio with (pulseaudio -k; pulseaudio)

XTRMan1 · 2010-01-06 06:15:26

module-udev-detect allowed the daemon to initialize but it didnt detect my sound card so i set it to manually load the alsa drivers.

ngoonee · 2010-01-06 06:34:51

You probably tried to start pulseaudio with some app still having control of the sound card.

Try using module-udev-detect and restarting your machine.

XTRMan1 · 2010-01-07 01:15:50

i tried that with module-udev-detect, module-hal-detect and module-detect. It only started working when I used module-alsa-sink.

ngoonee · 2010-01-07 02:35:31

Hmm, that's surprising, because your module-alsa-sink/source do not have any special parameters which would indicate you need to load them manually. Could you please send me an email, I'll try to help debug. Or if you could contact the PA ML yourself, that would be your best bet.

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#1 2010-01-06 04:14:54

pulseaudio no output devices

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