[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 25.12.09 00:47, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote:

> > 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?).

We actually cover that inside of gdm, where you can get access to the
boot messages.

Lennart

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