On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:29 +0100, Chris Rouch wrote: > On 1/20/08, Reik Red <reikred@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why would the command > > > > /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start > > > > work, whereas the command > > > > service pulseaudio start > > > > produces an X11 error "XOpenDisplay() failed" as seen below? > > I would guess that in the first case you have write access to the > display and in the second you don't. In any case, if you run > pulseaudio as a service you want to disable x11. The simplest way to > do this is to remove the pulseaudio-module-x11 rpm. > > Regards, > > Chris > > I seem to stay confused. /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start and service pulseaudio start are equivalent. What do you mean by disabling x11. Do you think that the OP was running these commands at run level 3?
