[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 12:45:21 PST 2010


On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 13:57 -0500, Bill Cox wrote:
> I've removed gdm from my Lucid system, after Tony Sales
> (founder/driver of Vinux) suggested it.  I'm already feeling rather
> attached to my gdm-less system.  It now boots into a very nicely
> talking console login prompt.  I just login, do whatever I like on the
> console, and type 'startx' if I want Firefox or other graphical
> applications.
> 
> I'll make this commitment to the devs of PA:  If you support me (I
> shouldn't require much) in getting Vinux/Ubuntu Lucid working with PA
> in system-wide daemon mode, I will work hard to make sure the next
> release is done the "right" way.  Of course, the details of the
> "right" way still need to be worked out, given that we need to process
> speech coming from the /dev/softsynth kernel module.

In my understanding it really doesn't require much, just copying some
key-file somewhere and running pulse with --system.




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