On Fri, 12.09.08 15:43, Janina Sajka (janina@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > The problems we have right now are sufficiently sever to be > showstoppers. At the SpeakupModified.Org we recommend disabling > pulseaudio. As things stand in F-9, one gets no audio until after a user > logs in on the GUI. So, how are those who need screen reader support > supposed to use the a11y features of GDM? As it stands, there seems no > way to get console audio without that GUI login. Also a nonstarter in > the screen reader user community. In Rawhide PA is started on demand (in addition to being started from gnome-session) and thus should generally work fine on the console too. > It seems a useful initial step toward resolution is to run pulseaudio > as a system daemon, via an init script, /sbin/service, /sbin/chkconfig. > The trade-offs vs the per user model that F-9 employs are probably more > than acceptable to most a11y users. Nope. Please don't. This particular problem is solved in Rawhide. > So, let me simply ask ... Has anyone a working init script for > pulseaudio as a system daemon? Anything close that we could continue to > refine as an alternative configuration option for Fedora? Some distros ship an init script. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
