Add an xauthority parameter and use it in the startup script.
Apparently on some systems the X authentication cookie is not stored in
~/.Xauthority but in some dynamic location pointed to by the XAUTHORITY
environment variable. The environment variable therefore needs to be set
in the PulseAudio daemon environment in order to have access to the X
server from the PulseAudio daemon, but the variable is not necessarily
set when starting PulseAudio. For example, systemd starts PulseAudio
outside the X session. The start-pulseaudio-x11 script is run in the
X session, so it has the environment variable available, and can pass it
to the X modules, which then can set the variable in the daemon
environment.
RedHat bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1723065
Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593746
Based on patch by Alexander Kurtz <kurtz.alex@googlemail.com>
Currently, the version check snippet uses a 'bash' extension which
arithemtically evaluates variables prior to expansion. This approach
does not nesseceraly work on other shells which may complain with
'5: Illegal numer' error. Expand the arithmetic expression before
evaluation to avoid such an error.
Signed-off-by: Vasilis Tsiligiannis <acinonyx@openwrt.gr>
Almost all distributions patch the configuration to disable
flat-volumes, because users tend to find the concept confusing (and it
also causes nasty surprises when some application pushes the volume to
100%). Let's remove the need for patching and disable the feature by
default.
Fixes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/issues/691
Removes a warning from HAVE_GCONF not being set, and fixes generation of
a large section that depends on OS_IS_WIN32 being explicitly set to 0.
We can't set OS_IS_WIN32 to 0 by default since a bunch of code uses it
via an ifdef rather than by value.
This was being done automatically by autotools, now we need to manually
specify this for each executable/library with a dependency in a
non-standard directory.
conditions this may lead to massive slowdown of floating point operations
when underflows or denormals are encountered. In particular, this problem
was observed with the soxr resampler after applying
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/merge_requests/120
Therefore this patch adds -ffast-math to the link flags of the pulseaudio
daemon. Linking with -ffast-math adds a procedure set_fast_math() to the
startup code of the daemon. On x86, the procedure sets bit 6 and 15 of the
mxcsr register. When these bits are set, denormals and results of
underflowing operations are truncated to 0.
It is helpful to improve reproducibility build [1] since
PA_SRCDIR/PA_BUILDDIR contains build path,
--disable-running-from-build-tree could drop these macros at
precompilation.
[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/
Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
The bool was inverted for some reason - maybe because the next line
prints enable-remixing that needs to be inverted from disable_remixing,
and somehow this logic was accidentally copied to the avoid-resampling
handling.
Fixes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/issues/568
This is a working implementation of a build with meson. The server,
utils, and most modules build with this, and it is possible to run from
a build tree and play/capture audio on ALSA devices.
There are a number of FIXMEs, of course, and a number of features that
need to be enabled (modules, dependencies, installation, etc.), but this
should provide everything we need to get there relatively quickly.
To use this, install meson (distro package, or mesonbuild.com) and run:
$ cd <pulseaudio src dir>
$ meson <builddir>
$ ninja -C <builddir>
This also makes the module-gconf section conditional on HAVE_GCONF,
because if only gsettings support is built, the gconf section in the
configuration file would be redundant and confusing.
Usually PulseAudio is built with a linker that supports the -z,now
option, and that option should have the same effect (i.e. the dynamic
linker resolves all symbols when the program is started) as re-execing
with the LD_BIND_NOW environment variable set, so usually the re-execing
is redundant.
BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104789
The autospawn mechanism already had a root-autospawn protection mechanism. When
using systemd that was lost. Systemd 234 has a mechanism to conditionalize unit starting
on the running user, so lets do that to protect against root autospawning.
Some modules may only be loaded once, and trying to load them
twice from default.pa makes PulseAudio startup fail. While that could
be considered a user error, it's nicer to not be so strict. It's not
necessarily easy to figure what went wrong, if for example the user
plays with RAOP and adds module-raop-discover to default.pa, which first
works fine, but suddenly stops working when the user at some point
enables RAOP support in paprefs. Enabling RAOP in paprefs makes
module-gconf load the module too, so the module gets loaded twice.
This patch adds a way to differentiate module load errors, and
make cli-command ignore the error when the module is already
loaded.
It was reported that PulseAudio weakens the umask to 022 if it's
initially set to 077. That's not as big problem as it might seem,
but it's still a problem. The umask affects the permissions of the state
files, and those aren't readable by other users anyway in the per-user
mode, because PulseAudio puts them in directories that aren't
accessible to other users. In the system mode the state files will be
readable by everyone, though, even by those users that don't otherwise
have access to PulseAudio. The state files are slightly
privacy-sensitive, because they contain e.g. history of applications
that have used PulseAudio.
I can't think of any use cases where access to the state files by other
users would be necessary, either in the per-user mode or in the system
mode, so let's use umask 077. This doesn't prevent access to any
sockets in the system mode, because all directories that PulseAudio
creates in the system mode will have permissions 755 regardless of the
umask, and the sockets themselves always have permissions 777.
BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102060
This adds an "avoid-resampling" option to daemon.conf that makes the
daemon try to use the stream sample rate if possible (the device needs
to support it, which currently only ALSA does), and there should not be
any other stream connected).
This should enable some of the "audiophile" use-cases where users wish
to play high sample rate audio files without resampling.
We still will do conversion if sample formats don't match, though. This
means that if you want to play 96 kHz/24 bit audio without any
modification the default format will need to be set to be 24-bit as
well. This will force all streams to be upconverted, which, other than
the wasted resources, should be relatively harmless.
PA_PAGE_SIZE using sysconf() may return a negative number
CID 1137925, CID 1137926, CID 1138485
instead of calling sysconf() directly, add function pa_page_size()
which uses the guestimate 4096 in case sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) fails
using PA_ONCE to only evaluate sysconf() once
The reason for depending on the socket unit is rather unobvious, so
let's add a comment to help people reading the service unit file. Felipe
Sateler explained the rationale well in the commit message of
7cb524a77b, so I just copied the same text into the comment.
This commit fixes two problems:
1. Because there are no implicit dependencies between sockets and services,
the socket, as set up by systemd will race with the socket, as set up
by the pulseaudio daemon. This can cause the pulseaudio.socket unit to
fail (even though the pulseaudio service started just fine), which can
confuse users.
2. While it is possible to use the service without the socket, it is not
clear why it would be desirable. And a user installing pulseaudio and
doing `systemctl --user start pulseaudio` will not get the socket
started, which might be confusing and problematic if the server is to
be restarted later on, as the client autospawn feature might kick in.
We do support system mode for the cases where it makes sense, so it's
really not sensible to be unconditionally snarky at our users for doing
it.
Signed-off-by: Arun Raghavan <arun@arunraghavan.net>
The current LFE crossover filter removes low frequencies from the main
channels and puts them into the LFE channel with the wrong amplitude.
It is not known for sure what is the correct relative amplitude (acoustic
measurements are required with real hardware), and changing that might
introduce a new bug, "it clips the LFE channel".
So just disable the feature by default until a better understanding
emerges how it should work. This, essentially, returns the defaults
to their state as of PulseAudio 6.0.
Some more observations:
- Most of available active analog speakers on the market do the
necessary crossover filtering already, and HDMI receivers can be
configured to do that, too, so a crossover filter in PulseAudio is
harmful in these use cases.
- The "laptop with a builtin subwoofer" use case requires manual
configuration anyway because the default crossover frequency (120 Hz) is
wrong for laptop speakers.
- Finally, Windows 10 with a built-in USB audio driver does not synthesize
the LFE channel given a 5.1 card and a stereo audio stream by default.
Hides: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95021
Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>
