[pulseaudio-discuss] alsa module fails after rebooting (solved)

[Pete Nesbitt]

On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:58:39 +0100
Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 28.12.08 16:31, Pete Nesbitt (pete at linux1.ca) wrote:
> 
> > I thought those ACl's were tied into SELinux (which I'm not running), 
> > but this is for pulse user run as system daemon, and has no login 
> > so I don't think the console-kit will have any impact.
> 
> No, ACLs are unrelated to SELinux. ConsoleKit uses ACLs all over the place.
> 
> The proper way to handle this if you use system mode is to either add
> a group "audio" or similar give it access to the audio device and
> include the "pulse" user in it. Or, simply add the "pulse" user
> directly to the ACLs:
> 
>   setfacl -m u:pulse:rw /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp/*
> 
> or something similar and less brutal.
> 
> Lennart
> 

Thanks Lennart, I'll give that a shot instead of the udev mods.

I have a good working networked setup now giving me a roll back
point, so I can look at cleaning things up like device access and
experiment with TCP vs RTP etc. :)

-Pete
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