On 2/7/08, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? No idea, but when a service is started at boot time, it has no X display to talk to regardless of the run level. Only when you log into the X display does it become available, by which time it is too late. Chris > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >