[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Markus Rechberger]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Markus Rechberger at 24/12/09 12:43 did gyre and gimble:
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>> 'Twas brillig, and Markus Rechberger at 23/12/09 14:35 did gyre and gimble:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Markus Rechberger at 23/12/09 13:45 did gyre and gimble:
>>>>>> You're certainly good at ignoring bugreports your way, instead of
>>>>>> finding solutions
>>>>>> to fix it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you give links to these bug reports please?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> read up my use case and read up Halim's use case, have a look at
>>>> freshmeat.net how many projects are broken
>>>> because of pulseaudio. My advice is to make your way optional, add a
>>>> configuration option which provides
>>>> a compatibility mode. You want to improve audio with linux? then please do so.
>>>> You guys spent alot time on everything already and something like that
>>>> should not be a showstopper.
>>>
>>> So no actual bug reports then?
>>>
>>
>> Heh. I think the issue is resolved.
>> apt-get remove pulseaudio is the preferred way to get audio work again.
>> I don't see the reason why someone should use a faulty audio system.
>> Alsa is working well enough for most applications, for the rest
>> Windows and OSX have to be used.
>
> Haha, sure whatever works for you.
>
> All I'm saying is do you expect us to trawl the internet and dig up
> problems without any kind of technical detail or debug info attached to
> them or do you think we should concentrate on answering and dealing with
> problems in a prescribed and constructive way - e.g. via our BTS.
>
> Honestly, give us solid bug reports and we'll attempt to fix the
> problems reported, but don't come here spreading FUD and talking
> bullshit throwing accusations without backing them up with anything
> other than heresay. What I want for Christmas is BUG REPORTS with proper
> debug information and trigger cases.

I think it's pretty clear what the problem is.
PA does not support multiple users on one system..
I told you if you intend to replace the existing audio system and
build up compatibility layers
add try to do it right. People might have had an idea back then when
they allowed multiple
users to access the audio system. The authorization is normally
handled by /etc/group, there
I can clearly define who is allowed to access audio and who not.
You define this behavior as a bug just because you don't seem to
understand how the audio system
worked before pulseaudio came up - definitely a good way to start.

Markus