[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 26.12.09 18:03, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote:

> I've been following these discussions with some (layman-level, I don't
> dev for pulse) interest, and I'm wondering whether a simple solution
> would be to use alsa-output prior to login and pulseaudio after login. A
> bit of configuration required instead of re-writing apps. Something
> would have to be done to get the screen reader to not hog the hw when
> the user is logged in, that shouldn't be too difficult though.

Yes, this is actually what I suggested a couple of times: it is
possible to bypass PA, which is useful if you want to do audio outside
of any session.

Lennart

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