[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 04/01/10 17:03 did gyre and gimble:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>> Actually is this safe to do - i.e. disabling it wholesale? Is it not
>> used for digital output in some capacity (e.g. if the user picks a
>> digital profile)? Or is it perfectly "safe" to just turn it off all the
>> time? I don't have this h/w so can't easily test...
> 
> Using "off" is only safe for analog output. To correctly fix this
> issue on Lives/Audigys, we need:
> 
> 1) alsactl to mute 'IEC958 Optical Raw' at boot via its init db
> 2) PA to set "off" for above mixer control for analog profiles and
> "on" for IEC958-enabled ones
> 
> I chatted briefly with Lennart some time ago on IRC about this mixer
> control, and he was of the opinion that ALSA needs to correctly set it
> at boot (which would be accomplished via (1)).

D'oh, I forgot that the patch was to the analog-output.conf.common
file... silly me.

I'll copy the same fix for the time being. Thanks :)

Col


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