[pulseaudio-discuss] Using pulseaudio with speakup

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 01.01.10 16:58, Bill Cox (waywardgeek at gmail.com) wrote:

> However, even with these changes, there are bugs due to pulseaudio's
> user-based structure.  Today, in Karmic, if I 'switch user' to another
> use, my new gnome session has no sound.  That's because there are two
> pulseaudio processes running, and the first one takes over control of
> the sound card and does not share.

PA should hand over the device as the session is switched. This works
fine on Fedora. if it doesn't on Ubuntu make sure to file a bug on LP.

Lennart

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