-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/2012 02:22 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the > sound system? > > Ever since pulseaudio was introduced in Fedora 8 and Mr. Lennart > Poettering inflicted his peculiar ideas of security on us, the default > installation hasn't worked properly, despite many BZ's and copious > complaints! Specifically, pulseaudio invents the "seat" and only the > one person in the "seat" can use the sound system. This precludes > having root, or anyone else, from generating sounds - presumably it's a > security risk. Bosh! Well, that depends on if you have a microphone attached to your system, and consider allowing a remote user to listen to what is going on by your computer a security risk. > > A simple workaround was found - remove the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio > package, and edit /etc/group, adding everyone on the system to the > audio group (what a nutty idea). That removed the restrictions and > restored sanity. Root could even generate a login tune via the > /etc/rc.d/rc.local script, before anyone had logged on. > > With F17, this escape hatch has been removed. > With the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package absent, a simple command to > play a sound yields a core dump: > > $ play /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg > dsp_protocol_open_node(): Could not open pcm device file /dev/dsptask/pcm2 > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > The pcm device file is, indeed, absent from the file system. > In fact, no sounds whatever can be generated by any of the standard > methods I use. (Except that Windows running inside VirtualBox seems > able to manage it.) It sounds like the snd_pcm module did not get loaded. > > To get any sound at all, I've had to reinstall the > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, but this allows only me to generate > sound and destroys my crontab-simulated grandfather clock, among other > things. > > On an i386 netbook, F17 sound works fine, as it always has, with the > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package removed. The play program doesn't > complain about the absence of /dev/dsptask/pcm2, but just plays the > sound. > > What new magic incantation is now required that I may be permitted > to use my x86_64 sound system fully? > You may want to look into running PA as a system daemon instead of a user daemon. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/qYLQACgkQqbQrVW3JyMRCYgCeLds+GSpPpofeVzSwt6mYk94K t4gAmwYTb1G+5Y3OgSoqA86SVGB/RJNU =GAup -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
