On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:34 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 10:32 +0000, Neil Bird wrote: > > Essentially, the issue is that, with gdm audio enabled, any normal > > user's app. will hang when trying to generate sound. This made my > > login nearly impossible as I have a couple of applets that 'tone' when > > logging in, and this seemed (via the gnome panel?) to near-enough hang > > my entire session. > > I've rarely heard my computer do the login/ready noises, only ever > during some graphical dual-logins when the second one of them would go > through the switch user re-login seqence. Other than that, GDM always > ran silent. > > To be honest, I prefer it that way, and I disable the login/window > noises in Gnome. In the past, pre-pulseaudio era, I'd found them to > wedge the sound system, so nothing could make any noises. At some stage > something would try to make use of the sound system, fail, and never > recover. And I dislike essentially useless noises. > > But, when trying out Ubuntu (with pulseaudio) on the same hardware, its > GDM was quite capable of making its audio blingy noises, as well as the > desktop once you're logged in, and the sound system would work fine. > > There must be some differences in how who's allowed to make sound is > determined between the two systems. ---- pulseaudio runs as the logged in user gdm does not Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
