[sf-lug] THIS SUNDAY, May 3, 11 AM, SF-LUG ZOOM vrtual meeting

[Alex Kleider]

On 2020-05-03 15:58, jim wrote:
> Jim's notes re PulseAudio:
> 
> 
> PulseAudio ("pulse") was news to me, thank you.
> The docs on the web page seem well-written to me.
> 
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/About/
> 
> 
> Here's how it looks on my system:
> 
> root at Ultralap-6440:~# ls -l /etc/pulse
> total 20
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1201 May 21  2018 client.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2366 May 21  2018 daemon.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5091 May 21  2018 default.pa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2046 May 21  2018 system.pa
> 
> root at Ultralap-6440:~# ps aux | grep ulse
> gdm       1175  0.0  0.0 1415668 11308 ?       Ssl  Apr29   0:00
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
> jim       1630  2.4  0.1 2483320 18936 ?       S<l  Apr29 142:19
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
> root     23512  0.0  0.0  21536  1088 pts/0    S+   15:39   0:00 grep
> --color=auto ulse
> 
> root at Ultralap-6440:~# ls /usr/bin/*ulse*
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio  /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
> 
> root at Ultralap-6440:~# man pulseaudio

I can't seem to get "pulseaudio --start" to work:
alex at x1:~$ ls -lA /etc/pulse
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1201 Aug 15  2019 client.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 17:50 client.conf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2374 Aug 15  2019 daemon.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4933 Aug 15  2019 default.pa                      
     -13
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2078 Aug 15  2019 system.pa
alex at x1:~$ ps aux | grep ulse
alex      1492  1.0  0.6 650092 27420 ?        S<sl May02  15:45 
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
alex      5825  0.0  0.0   6076   892 pts/0    S+   17:19   0:00 grep 
ulse
alex at x1:~$ which pulseaudio
/usr/bin/pulseaudio
alex at x1:~$ pulseaudio --start
alex at x1:~$ ps aux | grep ulse
alex      1492  1.0  0.6 650092 27420 ?        S<sl May02  15:45 
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
alex      5944  0.0  0.0   6076   824 pts/0    S+   17:21   0:00 grep 
ulse

I expect to soon give up this endeavor and turn to antiX or mxlinux (as 
suggested _but not advocated_ by Rick:-)