[pulseaudio-discuss] multiseat

[Brad Midgley]

Hi folks,

You've got to admit multiseat is a cool application for a big multicore
machine. I've enjoyed tinkering with it over the years. But after the last
os update it took a turn.

I've followed suggestions in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX#Pulseaudio to allow pulse to
work independently across seats on one machine. Unfortunately, their
suggestion to use a system-wide daemon doesn't really work in ubuntu
12.04... each user is only able to set the global output device. It was a
little more workable in 10.04 where I could choose the audio output device
each audio client got. That doesn't appear to be an option now.

Is there a workaround you guys could suggest that allows for pulse to run
with multiple seats independently? I wouldn't mind if the user had to
choose again whenever logging into a different seat.

It is pretty cool to have hdmi video cards now so I can have audio routed
through each video card, but it's sad that I can only actually use one at a
time. I have three nvidia 8400s and one nvidia onboard, so this will be a
nice way to run everyone once it's all done.

thanks
-- 
Brad Midgley
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