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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-download-http
8 "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-&pulseaudio-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-download-ftp " ">
10 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-md5sum "390de38231d5cdd6b43ada8939eb74f1">
11 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-size "1.6 MB">
12 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-buildsize "88 MB (add 2 MB for tests)">
13 <!ENTITY pulseaudio-time "1.5 SBU (add 0.6 SBU for tests)">
14]>
15
16<sect1 id="pulseaudio" xreflabel="PulseAudio-&pulseaudio-version;">
17 <?dbhtml filename="pulseaudio.html"?>
18
19 <sect1info>
20 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
21 <date>$Date$</date>
22 </sect1info>
23
24 <title>PulseAudio-&pulseaudio-version;</title>
25
26 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio">
27 <primary sortas="a-PulseAudio">PulseAudio</primary>
28 </indexterm>
29
30 <sect2 role="package">
31 <title>Introduction to PulseAudio</title>
32
33 <para>
34 <application>PulseAudio</application> is a sound system for POSIX OSes,
35 meaning that it is a proxy for sound applications. It allows you to do
36 advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your
37 application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a
38 different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing
39 several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server.
40 </para>
41
42 &lfs81_checked;
43
44 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
45 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
46 <listitem>
47 <para>
48 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pulseaudio-download-http;"/>
49 </para>
50 </listitem>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>
53 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&pulseaudio-download-ftp;"/>
54 </para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>
58 Download MD5 sum: &pulseaudio-md5sum;
59 </para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>
63 Download size: &pulseaudio-size;
64 </para>
65 </listitem>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>
68 Estimated disk space required: &pulseaudio-buildsize;
69 </para>
70 </listitem>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>
73 Estimated build time: &pulseaudio-time;
74 </para>
75 </listitem>
76 </itemizedlist>
77
78 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">PulseAudio Dependencies</bridgehead>
79
80 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
81 <para role="required">
82 <xref linkend="libsndfile"/>
83 </para>
84
85 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
86 <para role="recommended">
87 <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
88 <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
89 <xref linkend="glib2"/>,
90 <xref linkend="libcap-pam"/>,
91 <xref linkend="openssl"/>,
92 <xref linkend="speex"/> and
93 <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
94 </para>
95
96 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
97 <para role="optional">
98 <xref linkend="avahi"/>,
99 <xref linkend="bluez"/>,
100 <xref linkend="check"/>,
101 <phrase revision="sysv">
102 <xref role="runtime" linkend="consolekit"/> (runtime),</phrase>
103 <xref linkend="fftw"/>,
104 <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
105 <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
106 <xref linkend="libsamplerate"/>,
107 <xref linkend="sbc"/> (Bluetooth support),
108 <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
109 <ulink url="http://www.jackaudio.org/">JACK</ulink>,
110 <ulink url="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libasyncns/">libasyncns</ulink>,
111 <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink>,
112 <ulink url="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/orc/">ORC</ulink>,
113 <ulink url="http://tdb.samba.org/">TDB</ulink>,
114 <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/webrtc-audio-processing/">
115 WebRTC AudioProcessing</ulink> and
116 <ulink url="http://www.xenproject.org/">XEN</ulink>
117 </para>
118
119 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
120 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/pulseaudio"/>
121 </para>
122 </sect2>
123
124 <sect2 role="installation">
125 <title>Installation of PulseAudio</title>
126
127 <para>
128 Install <application>PulseAudio</application> by running the following
129 commands:
130 </para>
131
132<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
133 --sysconfdir=/etc \
134 --localstatedir=/var \
135 --disable-bluez4 \
136 --disable-bluez5 \
137 --disable-rpath &amp;&amp;
138make</userinput></screen>
139
140 <para>
141 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
142 </para>
143
144 <para>
145 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
146 </para>
147
148<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
149
150 <!-- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/ -->
151 <para>
152 While still as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
153 user, remove the <application>D-Bus</application> configuration file
154 for the system wide daemon to avoid creating unnecessary system
155 users and groups:
156 </para>
157
158<screen role="root"><userinput>rm -fv /etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf</userinput></screen>
159
160 </sect2>
161
162 <sect2 role="commands">
163 <title>Command Explanations</title>
164
165 <para>
166 <parameter>--disable-bluez4</parameter>: This switch disables
167 support for <application>BlueZ</application> version 4 in favour
168 of <application>BlueZ</application> version 5 since the latter
169 also installs compatibility library for the earlier version.
170 </para>
171
172 <para>
173 <parameter>--disable-bluez5</parameter>: This switch prevents
174 a runtime error if <xref linkend="dbus"/> and <xref linkend="sbc"/>
175 are both installed but <xref linkend="bluez"/> is not installed.
176 Remove this if you have installed all three packages.
177 </para>
178
179 <para>
180 <parameter>--disable-rpath</parameter>: This switch prevents
181 linker from adding a hardcoded runtime path to the installed
182 programs and libraries.
183 </para>
184
185 </sect2>
186
187 <sect2 role="configuration">
188 <title>Configuring PulseAudio</title>
189
190 <sect3 id="pulseaudio-config">
191 <title>Config Files</title>
192 <para>
193 There are system wide configuration files:
194 <filename>/etc/pulse/daemon.conf</filename>,
195 <filename>/etc/pulse/client.conf</filename>,
196 <filename>/etc/pulse/default.pa</filename>, and user configuration
197 files with the same names in
198 <filename class="directory">~/.config/pulse</filename>. User
199 configuration files take precedence over system wide ones.
200 </para>
201
202 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pulseaudio-config">
203 <primary sortas="e-AA.config-pulse">~/.config/pulse</primary>
204 </indexterm>
205
206 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pulseaudio-config">
207 <primary
208 sortas="e-etc-pulse-daemon.conf">/etc/pulse/daemon.conf</primary>
209 </indexterm>
210
211 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pulseaudio-config">
212 <primary
213 sortas="e-etc-pulse-client.conf">/etc/pulse/client.conf</primary>
214 </indexterm>
215
216 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pulseaudio-config">
217 <primary
218 sortas="e-etc-pulse-default.pa">/etc/pulse/default.pa</primary>
219 </indexterm>
220 </sect3>
221
222 <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
223
224 <para>
225 The default configuration files allow setting up a working installation.
226 However, a reference to Console-Kit needs to be removed if it is
227 not installed. For example, issue the following command as the
228 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
229 </para>
230
231<screen role="root"><userinput>sed -i '/load-module module-console-kit/s/^/#/' /etc/pulse/default.pa</userinput></screen>
232
233 <para>
234 You may also have to configure the audio system. You can start
235 <application>pulseaudio</application> in command line mode using
236 <command>pulseaudio -C</command> and then list various
237 information and change settings. See
238 <command>man pulse-cli-syntax</command>.
239 </para>
240
241 <para>
242 If <application>pulseaudio</application> was working but you no-longer
243 have sound, after checking for hardware issues (speakers or headphones
244 not connected, external amplifier not connected) you may need to fix it.
245 </para>
246
247 <para>
248 One suggestion is to close the application, such as
249 <application>firefox</application> where sound has stopped working, then
250 run: <command>pactl list short sinks</command> followed by:
251 <command>pacmd set-default-sink &lt;sink #&gt;</command> and then
252 restart the application.
253 </para>
254
255 <para>
256 If that does not work, a more drastic approach often works. After closing
257 the application, close pulseaudio, either using <command>pulseaudio
258 --kill</command> or, if that fails, <command>killall -KILL
259 pulseaudio</command> and then <command>rm -rf
260 ~/.config/pulse/*</command> (and perhaps also
261 <command>rm -rf ~/.pulse/*</command> if you have used a very old version
262 of pulse on this machine, then run <command>pulseaudio
263 --verbose</command> to restart it. If the daemon starts, restart the
264 application. See <command>man pulseaudio</command> for more options.
265 </para>
266
267 </sect3>
268 </sect2>
269
270 <sect2 role="content">
271 <title>Contents</title>
272
273 <segmentedlist>
274 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
275 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
276 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
277
278 <seglistitem>
279 <seg>
280 esdcompat, pacat, pacmd, pactl, padsp, pamon (symlink to pacat),
281 paplay (symlink to pacat), parec (symlink to pacat),
282 parecord (symlink to pacat), pasuspender,
283 pax11publish, pulseaudio, and
284 <!-- it looks like the equalizer needs FFTW: qpaeq, -->
285 start-pulseaudio-x11
286 </seg>
287 <seg>
288 libpulse.so
289 libpulse-mainloop-glib.so,
290 libpulse-simple.so,
291 libpulsecommon-&pulseaudio-major-version;.so,
292 libpulsecore-&pulseaudio-major-version;.so, and
293 libpulsedsp.so
294
295 </seg>
296 <seg>
297 /etc/pulse,
298 /usr/include/pulse,
299 /usr/lib/cmake/PulseAudio,
300 /usr/lib/{pulseaudio,pulse-&pulseaudio-major-version;},
301 /usr/libexec/pulse, and
302 /usr/share/pulseaudio
303 </seg>
304 </seglistitem>
305 </segmentedlist>
306
307 <variablelist>
308 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
309 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
310 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
311
312 <varlistentry id="esdcompat">
313 <term><command>esdcompat</command></term>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>
316 is the <application>PulseAudio</application> ESD wrapper script.
317 </para>
318 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio esdcompat">
319 <primary sortas="b-esdcompat">esdcompat</primary>
320 </indexterm>
321 </listitem>
322 </varlistentry>
323
324 <varlistentry id="pacat">
325 <term><command>pacat</command></term>
326 <listitem>
327 <para>
328 plays back or records raw or encoded audio streams on a
329 <application>PulseAudio</application> sound server.
330 </para>
331 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pacat">
332 <primary sortas="b-pacat">pacat</primary>
333 </indexterm>
334 </listitem>
335 </varlistentry>
336
337 <varlistentry id="pacmd">
338 <term><command>pacmd</command></term>
339 <listitem>
340 <para>
341 is a tool used to reconfigure a <application>PulseAudio</application>
342 sound server during runtime.
343 </para>
344 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pacmd">
345 <primary sortas="b-pacmd">pacmd</primary>
346 </indexterm>
347 </listitem>
348 </varlistentry>
349
350 <varlistentry id="pactl">
351 <term><command>pactl</command></term>
352 <listitem>
353 <para>
354 is used to control a running <application>PulseAudio</application>
355 sound server.
356 </para>
357 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pactl">
358 <primary sortas="b-pactl">pactl</primary>
359 </indexterm>
360 </listitem>
361 </varlistentry>
362
363 <varlistentry id="padsp">
364 <term><command>padsp</command></term>
365 <listitem>
366 <para>
367 is the <application>PulseAudio</application> OSS Wrapper.
368 </para>
369 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio padsp">
370 <primary sortas="b-padsp">padsp</primary>
371 </indexterm>
372 </listitem>
373 </varlistentry>
374
375 <varlistentry id="pamon">
376 <term><command>pamon</command></term>
377 <listitem>
378 <para>
379 is a symbolic link to <command>pacat</command>.
380 </para>
381 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pamon">
382 <primary sortas="b-pamon">pamon</primary>
383 </indexterm>
384 </listitem>
385 </varlistentry>
386
387 <varlistentry id="paplay">
388 <term><command>paplay</command></term>
389 <listitem>
390 <para>
391 is used to play audio files on a
392 <application>PulseAudio</application> sound server.
393 </para>
394 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio paplay">
395 <primary sortas="b-paplay">paplay</primary>
396 </indexterm>
397 </listitem>
398 </varlistentry>
399
400 <varlistentry id="parec">
401 <term><command>parec</command></term>
402 <listitem>
403 <para>
404 is a symbolic link to <command>pacat</command>.
405 </para>
406 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio parec">
407 <primary sortas="b-parec">parec</primary>
408 </indexterm>
409 </listitem>
410 </varlistentry>
411
412 <varlistentry id="parecord">
413 <term><command>parecord</command></term>
414 <listitem>
415 <para>
416 is a symbolic link to <command>pacat</command>.
417 </para>
418 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio parecord">
419 <primary sortas="b-parecord">parecord</primary>
420 </indexterm>
421 </listitem>
422 </varlistentry>
423
424 <varlistentry id="pasuspender">
425 <term><command>pasuspender</command></term>
426 <listitem>
427 <para>
428 is a tool that can be used to tell a local
429 <application>PulseAudio</application> sound server to temporarily
430 suspend access to the audio devices, to allow other applications
431 to access them directly.
432 </para>
433 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pasuspender">
434 <primary sortas="b-pasuspender">pasuspender</primary>
435 </indexterm>
436 </listitem>
437 </varlistentry>
438
439 <varlistentry id="pax11publish">
440 <term><command>pax11publish</command></term>
441 <listitem>
442 <para>
443 is the <application>PulseAudio</application>
444 X11 Credential Utility.
445 </para>
446 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pax11publish">
447 <primary sortas="b-pax11publish">pax11publish</primary>
448 </indexterm>
449 </listitem>
450 </varlistentry>
451
452 <varlistentry id="pulseaudio-prog">
453 <term><command>pulseaudio</command></term>
454 <listitem>
455 <para>
456 is a networked low-latency sound server for Linux.
457 </para>
458 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pulseaudio-prog">
459 <primary sortas="b-pulseaudio">pulseaudio</primary>
460 </indexterm>
461 </listitem>
462 </varlistentry>
463
464<!-- only installed if FFTW is present
465 <varlistentry id="qpaeq">
466 <term><command>qpaeq</command></term>
467 <listitem>
468 <para>
469 is an equalizer interface for
470 <application>PulseAudio</application> equalizer sinks.
471 </para>
472 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio qpaeq">
473 <primary sortas="b-qpaeq">qpaeq</primary>
474 </indexterm>
475 </listitem>
476 </varlistentry>
477-->
478<!-- Not found in PA 7.0
479 <varlistentry id="start-pulseaudio-kde">
480 <term><command>start-pulseaudio-kde</command></term>
481 <listitem>
482 <para>
483 Starts <application>PulseAudio</application> and loads
484 module-device-manager to use KDE routing policies.
485 </para>
486 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio start-pulseaudio-kde">
487 <primary sortas="b-start-pulseaudio-kde">start-pulseaudio-kde</primary>
488 </indexterm>
489 </listitem>
490 </varlistentry>
491-->
492 <varlistentry id="start-pulseaudio-x11">
493 <term><command>start-pulseaudio-x11</command></term>
494 <listitem>
495 <para>
496 starts <application>PulseAudio</application> and registers it to
497 the X11 session manager.
498 </para>
499 <indexterm zone="pulseaudio start-pulseaudio-x11">
500 <primary sortas="b-start-pulseaudio-x11">start-pulseaudio-x11</primary>
501 </indexterm>
502 </listitem>
503 </varlistentry>
504
505 </variablelist>
506
507 </sect2>
508
509</sect1>
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