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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 20.11.07 11:46, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò (flameeyes at gmail.com) wrote:

> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:
> 
> > I know that Gentoo sets up PA this way. This is against my
> > recommendation.
> 
> Hey now! *I* set it as systemwide, but that's my choice. The ebuild
> gives you the tools of handling it in any way you want, either as
> session instance or systemwide instance. As KDE and session instance
> don't seem to work that well, I go for systemwide.

Last time I checked F8 KDE sets PA up as session-daemon.

> As I do use it, I do make sure that it works, but in pure Gentoo spirit
> I don't force anything on users. They have the tool, they configure it.
> 
> Actually, the configuration files are untouched from the default shipped
> by PulseAudio, so... :)

If you run PA as system daemon, than you should use a different
"default.pa", because you certainly don't want to load
module-x11-publish or module-gconf.

Lennart

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