Re: [LAU] debian wheezy vs pulseaudio vs jackdbus

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Oct 30 2012 - 06:42:38 EET

On 10/29/2012 02:12 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
> On Tue, October 30, 2012 10:11 am, Len Ovens wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, October 29, 2012 2:45 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>> On Tue, October 30, 2012 8:35 am, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know whats going on with pulseaudio-module-jackdbus in
>>>> Debian
>>>> Wheezy?
>>>>
>>>> On my system the jackdbus module doesn't exist in the repos and the
>>>> result
>>>> is that pulseaudio doesn't play nice with jack.
>>>>
>>>> I can see that jackd2 was compiled with dbus support so not sure what's
>>>> going on with the missing pulse module.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can see with pacmd list-modules that module-jackdbus-connect is loaded
>>> so the module must be compiled into pulse directly.
>>>
>>> So any thoughts on why the module is not kicking in?
>>
>> On ubuntu (which normally uses debian src packages), The module name is
>> module-jackdbus-detect. I don't think I have seen a module called
>> module-jackdbus-connect even on the pulse site.
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules#JACK_Connectivity
>>
>
> You got the gist...
>
>> Even if jackd comes with dbus support, it can be started without. so use
>> ps x or similar to check that the running app is jackdbus and not jackd.
>
> There is no jackdbus on debian wheezy, just "jackd" or "jackd2".
>
>> If you are using qjackctl there is a checkbox under misc "Enable D-Bus
>> interface" that has to be checked.
>>
>
> That helps which means that debian wheezy has support for pulseaudio,
> module-jackdbus-detect and jackd2 by default but there is still an error:
>
> ====
> Failed to acquire device name : Audio0 error : Method "RequestRelease"
> with signature "i" on interface "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1" doesn't
> exist
> Audio device hw:0 cannot be acquired...
> ====
>
> What I find completely bizarre is that the top 5 hits on google for this
> error have people recommending to disable pulseaudio or use an alternate
> method to connect. It seems people have known about this issue for a while
> and been ignoring it or waiting for someone else to figure it out.

Removing PulseAudio works for me!

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