[Resolved?] Re: [Hardy] NX (NoMachine) Sound/No Sound

[NoOp]

On 11/27/2008 12:01 PM, Daniel T Chen wrote:
> On 11/27/2008 02:31 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>
>>
>> I: module-volume-restore.c: Restoring sink for
>> <pulsecore/protocol-native.c$gnome-sound-properties>
>> I: module-volume-restore.c: Restoring volume for
>> <pulsecore/protocol-native.c$gnome-sound-properties>
>> I: module-alsa-sink.c: Trying resume...
>> E: module-alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or
>> resource busy
>> D: module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink
>> alsa_output.pci_8086_24d5_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 becomes busy.
>>
> 
> PulseAudio is configured (by default) to grab hw:* instead of 
> default:*.  The implication of this configuration is that dmix and 
> dsnoop are not active, so if any other application has used either hw:* 
> or default:* (or dmix:*, dsnoop:*, or asym:*), then the pulse daemon 
> will throw the above error.
> 
> That said, it is fairly straightforward to configure the pulse daemon to 
> use dmix:* for sinks and dsnoop for sources, but such a configuration 
> deviates from what upstream recommends, so Ubuntu does not ship such a 
> configuration active by default.
> 

Not having a clue about pulseaudio; would padevchooser allow me to
modify, or is there a config file that I can modify? I have several
'test' systems so I'm not too worried about messing something up.