[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio

[duportail]

Op 12-4-2011 18:53, Tanu Kaskinen schreef:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:30 -0400, Sean McNamara wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:15 PM, duportail<poort at telenet.be>  wrote:
>>> Try to test the new xubuntu 11.04 with kde on a multi-user system.
>>> The first user (for example user1) can log in and gets a default sink from
>>> pulse.
>>> The second user(for example user2) that will log in gets a auto_null because
>>> pulse did not found any sinks.
>>> If i log out user1, than user2 can get a default sink by kill and start
>>> pulse.
>>> Where should be the reason?
>> This is the "classic" multi-user problem: you're using a soundcard
>> without hardware mixing, so only one ALSA application can take direct
>> control of the hardware device at a time. user1's pulseaudio daemon
>> takes control of it, so obviously user2's PA daemon will just get
>> "Device or resource busy" when trying to snd_pcm_open() on hw:0 (for
>> example). This problem has existed since ALSA existed. There's no
>> direct fix without scrapping the API and rewriting it.
> Actually, this situation is supposed to be handled just fine (unless
> duportail expects both users to be able to use the audio hw
> simultaneously, which he doesn't mention). If this doesn't work, xubuntu
> is broken. Some things that can cause this problem: the users are in the
> "audio" group, consolekit isn't running or consolekit's udev-acl isn't
> in use.
>
Maybe xubuntu is broken.I will wait until further releases

gd