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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 04/01/10 16:27 did gyre and gimble:
> I wonder if the audio device permission rewriting should be disabled
> somehow before the system-wide daemon works properly. The current
> symptoms don't sound like you've hit this issue yet, but I would think
> that the system-wide pulseaudio instance will lose access to the sound
> card as soon as someone logs in.

Make sure the "pulse" user is in the "audio" group. This bypasses the
ACLs (as the audio nodes in /dev/snd/* should all be group owned by
"audio").

No per-user PA daemon is started if there is a system-wide one already
running (at least in theory), and the ACL adding and removing from the
device nodes as users log in/out should have no effect.

Col



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