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

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Colin Guthrie wrote:

> There should be some info kicking around about system mode PA if you 
> google around for it.

I don't have much success with getting audio for two users with pulseaudio.

I start pulsaudio as root with these options:

# pulseaudio --log-target=syslog --system -D --disallow-exit

And get this info in syslog; both users only have "dummy audio". So it's even worse this way.

Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21012]: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-module-loading not set!
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21012]: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode!
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21012]: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time!
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: main.c: OK, so you are running PA in system mode. Please note that you most likely shouldn't be doing that.
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: main.c: If you do it nonetheless then it's your own fault if things don't work as expected.
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: main.c: Please read http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/WhatIsWrongWithSystemMode for an explanation why system mode is usually a bad idea.
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: module.c: module-hal-detect is deprecated: Please use module-udev-detect instead of module-hal-detect!
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: module-alsa-card.c: Card '0' doesn't exist: No such file or directory
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id=0 name="pci_8086_3a3e_sound_card_0" card_name="alsa_card.pci_8086_3a3e_sound_card_0" tsched=1 card_properties="module-hal-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: module-alsa-card.c: Card '2' doesn't exist: No such file or directory
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id=2 name="pci_1002_aa38_0_sound_card_2" card_name="alsa_card.pci_1002_aa38_0_sound_card_2" tsched=1 card_properties="module-hal-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: module-alsa-card.c: Card '1' doesn't exist: No such file or directory
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id=1 name="pci_1002_aa38_sound_card_1" card_name="alsa_card.pci_1002_aa38_sound_card_1" tsched=1 card_properties="module-hal-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
Nov 25 19:23:40 dom pulseaudio[21013]: main.c: Failed to acquire org.pulseaudio.Server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.122" is not allowed to own the service "org.pulseaudio.Server" due to security policies in the configuration file



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