[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio as a systemwide deamon and as the default ALSA plugin doesn't seem to work right.... ?

[Kevin Williams]

On November 15, 2007 05:46:49 am Colin Guthrie wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure but with 0.9.7 pa I don't think there are many reasons
> to run PA system wide any more. User switching is supported so that
> switching from one user to another work pretty well (tho' I have to
> admit I've not personally tested this!)

Does that mean, a systemwide instance is not recommended and wouldn't work as 
expected, likely to cause problems ?

> Are the users in the relevant group for accessing pulse? IIRC the
> default is "pulse-access"

Yes, the user is a member of the pulse-access group.

Thanks for the reply.

Kevin

> Kevin Williams wrote:
> > I have installed pulseaudio from the cvs repo and have configure the PA
> > daemon to run as a system wide instance. To ensure all the apps work
> > without needing to configure each of them individually, I have set the
> > pulseaudio as the default ALSA plugin in /etc/asound.conf following the
> > guide "Perfect Setup".
>
> I'm not 100% sure but with 0.9.7 pa I don't think there are many reasons
> to run PA system wide any more. User switching is supported so that
> switching from one user to another work pretty well (tho' I have to
> admit I've not personally tested this!)
>
> > PA lauches without any problems. But, the problem shows up when I launch
> > any of the multimedia apps. Sometimes, I see a message which says "Audio
> > device not available. May be it is in use by another application". I'm
> > pretty sure, there're no other apps at that same time yet, I receive
> > those messages, don't know why !??
>
> Are the users in the relevant group for accessing pulse? IIRC the
> default is "pulse-access"
>
> Col
>
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