[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

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On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:29 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 23.12.09 15:26, Halim Sahin (halim.sahin at freenet.de) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Col,
> > 1. I gave you some examples what doesn't work as expected.
> > How should I run my text-to-speech server before login to have
> > audiooutput for reading the login screen?
> 
> On Fedora at least the screenreader runs as normal process in the gdm
> pseudo-session which also happens to run a PA instance. So everything
> should be fine here, and I am quite sure this is not only done on
> Fedora this way but all other distributions that use a current version
> of gdm. Of course, if you use KDE things might be different...
> 
> > 2. Running daemons worked well under alsa (see my previous post).
> > I am using every day this setup.
> 
> Running PA doesn't mean ALSA is out of the game. PA builds on ALSA and
> as such everything you could do with ALSA before stays available with
> PA too.
> 
> However input output deamons should definitely be part of the user
> session. That is true for PA itself AND any kind of speech daemon and suchlike.
> 
> Lennart
> 
I believe in his particular use-case he's concerned about the
screenreader prior to the DE starting up (boot messages and the like?).