On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:10:02 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about
[gentoo-user] Can't get PulseAudio to work:

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>I rebooted with an ALSA-enabled kernel and with OSSv4 completely 
>removed.  But it doesn't work; everything can use ALSA OK, but not PA. 
>For example, "mplayer -ao pulse video.mkv" says:
>
>   socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
>
>What now?

Have you started the PulseAudio daemon?
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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