[pulseaudio-discuss] Help needed for system-wide pulseaudio for blind users

[Bill Cox]

Yes, it's running as user 'pulse' like this:

/usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority
--log-target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=1

Bill

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 11:02 -0500, Bill Cox wrote:
>> I'm trying to build a Vinux (blind-user Linux distro) release based on
>> Ubuntu/Lucid.  There's too much code to rewrite to have everything
>> working the "right" way with pulseaudio by May, so I want to release
>> Vinux/Ubuntu Lucid with the system-wide hack.
>>
>> I've enabled PA to start in system wide mode by editing
>> /etc/defaults/pulseaudio, and enabling it there.  I've added gdm,
>> root, speech-dispatcher, and my user name to the pulse-access group.
>> Pulseaudio starts, and speech-dispatcher and speechd-up work with it
>> just fine at boot.  Since this is a distro for the blind, I boot into
>> a console, not gdm.  The login prompt is read nicely, as is text when
>> I log in.  However, if I try to play a .wav file, there is no sound.
>> None of the apps with PA back-ends will play sound for me.  When I
>> type 'startx', Gome comes up, but the sound preference dialog tells me
>> there's no sound card.  I suspect that rights to use it have been
>> granted to the speech-dispatcher user, and I'm not able to access it.
>>
>> If there is anyone who can help me get such a settup working, I'd
>> really appreciate it!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
>> ______________________________
>
> Are you starting pulseaudio as --system? It may be started as the root
> user (which is different from system-wide mode).
>
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