On 06/02/13 13:50, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2013-02-05 06:52, Burton, Ross wrote: >> Hi Gary, >> >> On 5 February 2013 12:44, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> 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?
Depends on the image type, either from /eta/xdg/autostart, or for the audiplayer image from the /etc/init.d/guacamayo-session-* script. Tomas _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
