From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E8FEE00527 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 05:50:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 13B51F811E8; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 06:50:48 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A603F811E2; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 06:50:47 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <51125FBC.2090905@mlbassoc.com> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:50:52 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Burton, Ross" References: <5110FEC9.5070100@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: Yocto Project Subject: Re: pulseaudio madness X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:50:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2013-02-05 06:52, Burton, Ross wrote: > Hi Gary, > > On 5 February 2013 12:44, Gary Thomas wrote: >> I have a multi-media application/system (built with Poky/Yocto of course) >> that is currently using ALSA for the sound. This works great but now >> I'd like to be able to share some of the sound resources, in particular >> the audio output (speakers). To satisfy this, I looked at pulseaudio, >> but I'm overwhelmed by the package choices (there are 120 packages), >> not to mention what to do about configuration. >> >> I don't see any examples (images, etc) that use pulseaudio. >> >> Does anyone have any recommendations on what I might need to install, >> how to configure it, etc, to take over from my simple ALSA setup? > > The top tip is the PulseAudio documentation on the web site, that > lists all the plugins and what they do. The pulseaudio-server package > depends on all of the important plugins, so that gives you a working > PA setup once you've started it. > > You might want to have a look at Guacamayo's use of PA, that uses it > and will automatically switch output when new speakers are plugged in > too. https://github.com/Guacamayo Thanks, that helped. I've built Guacamayo for my RaspberryPi and can see how it's set up. One thing I'm missing is how the pulseaudio server gets started? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------