[pulseaudio-discuss] Two heads, two users, two soundcards

[Colin Guthrie]

Janek Kozicki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm planning to configure in few months a two-headed workstation for
> me and my wife. (I already learned about configuring two headed X, two
> LCDs for me, one for her, and double keyboard, and mouse and so forth).
> 
> Now I need to know how can I configure two sound cards properly?
> So that we both can be listening to different music on headphones, or
> watch different movies. Or she will be watching a movie, and I'll be
> playing flash games in a browser, with sound :)
> 
> can you provide me with any hints?
> 
> I'm using debian lenny, if that might be of importance.

I think the trick will be getting consolekit to assign the relevant ACLs 
to the sound card devices for each user. If this is done at the low 
level, pulse should "just work"(tm) as although it will try to enumerate 
both devices, it will not have access to one of them and thus will 
ignore it.

I appreciate this is not a "here's how to do it" but hopefully it's 
pointing you in the right direction.

Col


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