[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Halim Sahin]

Hi,
On Do, Dez 24, 2009 at 06:27:25 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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.

Ok what about consolescreenreaders like sbl brltty or speakup?
They need a working audiosystem to provide
usefull stuff before login or to read the login pprompt.
With pulseaudio I need to login without feedback, start the speech server and
then restart the screenreader.

sorry folks I seems that you can't sink of usecases other than yours.
Facts are:
You have developed a new audio system which brings more flexibility and
features to us.
Unfortunately you expect that all projects should rewrite their audio
stuff to work with your system.
By design mac and windows are not comparable with linux
because they are not a multi user OS.

For german users:
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/stud/unix-ag-bhb/node27.html

changing  the unix behaviour is the main problem here.
Maybe you don't need this but others do.

It should be possible to use the audiosystem the (old way).

Just my 2 cents.
Halim