[SOLVED] How to start pulseaudio on boot without a DE or WM? (XBMC)

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I run XBMC without a desktop environment or Window Manager, it launches via my .xinitrc as below:
exec /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/xbmc --standalone -fs
I can use pulseaudio with xbmc if I run from an ssh session "/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11" after xbmc has loaded up.
My question is, how do I start this automatically? If I add /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 directly above the exec line in my .xinitrc XBMC seems to take a good deal longer to start.
Any tips much appreciated.
Last edited by adr3nal1n (2011-08-30 19:11:01)

Thanks very much Vendion, I have tried as you suggested and it does work and XBMC loads up faster as a result of pulseaudio starting in the background. However this method leaves a defunct pulseaudio process after XBMC has started (along with the running pulseaudio processes). Is this normal when starting a process in the background from .xinitrc?
Out of curiosity, I have also tried another approach. I #'ed out the "/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 &"entry in the .xinitrc and added "/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11" (without the &) at the start of the /usr/bin/xbmc shell script that the exec line of the .xinitrc uses to launch xbmc and it loads just as fast as the suggested approach but minus the defunct pulseaudio process after xbmc starts. Weird, because if I try removing the & from the /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11" entry in .xintrc pulseaudio seems to hang on startup and /var/log/everything.log shows console kit timeout errors.
I am happy I have a fix for this now, I am just confused as to the behaviour encountered when trying to do this in the .xinitrc rather than editiing the xbmc launch script directly. Have you seen anything like this before?
Thanks again for all your help on this.

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