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Most Linux Distributions come with PulseAudio pre-installed and configured to run the daemon by default as a service. However, if yours does not, here are some first steps you can do to start your daemon manually.
First Steps
Simply start the PulseAudio daemon with the argument -nC
. This will tell PulseAudio to load without a default script file, and to open a command line on the running TTY after startup:
pulseaudio -nC
This will present you a screen like this:
Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.
>>>
Now you can issue CLI commands as described here. If you already have pulseaudio
started use pacmd command to open the CLI. Another way to start pulseaudio
is by specifying a configuration script like that one included in the distribution on the command line:
pulseaudio -nF pulseaudio.pa
This will load some drivers and protocols automatically.
The best idea is to configure your daemon in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
and /etc/pulse/default.pa
and to run pulseaudio
without any arguments.
*Beware! * Unless you pass the option --sysconfdir=/etc
to configure
, the directory /etc/pulse/
is really /usr/local/etc/pulse/
.
More information about available arguments and signals for the daemon can be found here.