[pulseaudio-discuss] only "dummy audio" available when many users want to use one audio card

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Daniel Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
>> Now, as my distribution started to use pulseaudio (0.9.20 since a few
>> weeks), only one user can use audio.
>>
>> The second user only has "dummy audio device" when starting pulseaudio.
> 
> Is module-x11-xsmp loaded? You can check via pactl list.

According to the output by both user, it is:

User which has audio:

Module #21
        Name: module-x11-xsmp
        Argument: display=:1 session_manager=local/dom:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/6421,unix/dom:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6421
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "X11 session management"
                module.version = "0.9.20-2mdv2010.1"

Client #4
        Driver: module-x11-xsmp.c
        Owner Module: 21
        Properties:
                application.name = "XSMP Session on KDE as 10646f6d0000125870882700000064210017"
                xsmp.vendor = "KDE"
                xsmp.client.id = "10646f6d0000125870882700000064210017"



User which doesn't have audio:

Module #19
        Name: module-x11-xsmp
        Argument: display=:0 session_manager=local/dom:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/6423,unix/dom:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6423
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "X11 session management"
                module.version = "0.9.20-2mdv2010.1"

Client #4
        Driver: module-x11-xsmp.c
        Owner Module: 19
        Properties:
                application.name = "XSMP Session on KDE as 10646f6d0000125870882900000064230013"
                xsmp.vendor = "KDE"
                xsmp.client.id = "10646f6d0000125870882900000064230013"


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