[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 03/01/10 22:58 did gyre and gimble:
> Unforch, some of the pa stuff I apparently need, is missing from the mirrors 
> mandriva uses.  So pamon and padev* are not installed.  Is there a new 
> method, or do I go fuss at the mdv people?

paman and padevchooser are not needed and are both deprecated upstream.
They don't really serve any useful purpose anyway. The only pa* tools
you really need are pavucontrol and paprefs.

As for the next stage I'm not an expert on this but I think you can try
adding:

[Element IEC985 Optical Raw]
switch = mute

to the end of:
/usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf.common

More info here:
https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-June/004229.html

Col


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