On Dec 17, 2007 8:20 PM, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FWIW, I run a headless home music server named musicbox that uses PA and > runs mpd. When my wife or I want to watch a movie, we just redirect the > sound output from our respective laptops to musicbox. Mpd has a PA > plugin, so it was quite easy to configure. Thanks, no matter what other people think.. i think it helps to have a specific implementation example to use as a baseline reference. Is mpd even in the mainline Fedora repository? Or am I blind? > > The only problem I ran into was in trying to get PA to run as a > system-wide daemon. I had to track down why it couldn't > open /dev/snd/*, and finally worked out that it was a permissions > problem, easily fixed using ConsoleKit. > > All that to say that except for the permissions problems, it just > worked. Is this fixable via some change in default policy that can be done via packaging payload or via mpd scriptlet? Or does this have to be done via local admin action? I will admit that ConsoleKit still confuses me because it runs counter to muscle memory. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
