<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10542">Dear,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10542"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10542">I know it's not recommended to run pulseaudio in system mode... however is there any alternative for multiusers (multiseats) to share a single sound card simultaneously ?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10542"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10542" dir="ltr">Moreover in my distro it seems that the system mode could be activated with the parameter PULSE_SERVER_TYPE=system in a file /etc/sysconfig/pulseaudio</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10542" dir="ltr">however the following comment in the file makes me doubt that this is actually available anymore :</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10736"># system Start a system wide daemon (not yet implemented)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10737"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10736"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10736">in the past i remember i always had pulse and pulse_access groups in my distro (Mageia)... which is not the case anymore ... did you recently change your policy regarding the system mode : decide to unactivate it ?</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10736">thank you for your help ...</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10736"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10736">regards,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10736"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464236241299_10736">fred</div></div></body></html>