[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and duportail at 12/04/11 19:20 did gyre and gimble:
> 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

Make sure that ck-list-sessions reports correctly that only the active
user is actually active.

Also check the user groups as Tanu reported.

But all in all, this *should* be handled correctly (and certainly is on
other systems)


Col

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