How to get output devices to appear in PulseAudio?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 07:39:09PM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/31/2012 08:42 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:14:57AM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> >> On 31 December 2012 10:09, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >> > ...
> >> > One can't use 'proper X' with modern applications because (as I said)
> >> > they depend on D-Bus etc.  However I guess that one *can* use VNC
> >> > because that effectively transfers control of the whole desktop from one
> >> > machine to another.
> >> 
> >> Can you give an example of an app that shows that problem?  I
> >> occasionally use ssh -X and then run an X app from the ssh shell
> >> without problems.  Perhaps I have just been lucky with the apps I have
> >> tried.
> >> 
> > Yes, some programs still work OK.
> > 
> > However try pavucontrol for example, it most definitely doesn't work.
> > 
> 
> WFM.
> 
> $ ssh -X <user>@<IP>
> $ pavucontrol
> 
When I do that pavucontrol appears but outputs a load of error messages
about not being able to talk to things, and does nothing.

... but on another system it works.  How odd.

-- 
Chris Green