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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:26:12 +0300
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On 05/22/2010 02:37 PM, David W Noon wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:10:02 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about
> [gentoo-user] Can't get PulseAudio to work:
>
> [snip]
>> 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?

There is none:

   ls /etc/init.d/*pulse*
   ls: cannot access /etc/init.d/*pulse*: No such file or directory

but it seems to start on its own, and in any case I solved that issue as 
I wrote in my other post.