On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:12:58PM -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
>
> 1) Edit /etc/group, adding every user to group pulse-access, or at
> least every user that will be permitted to enjoy the sound system.
> Be sure to include root.
> pulse-access:x:495:root,dad,srd
Why do you have include root? It has that access anyway by a virtue
of beeing root.
I was adding users to a group pulse-rt but if you are starting
pulseaudio with '--system' then this will not make difference
accordingly to 'man pulseaudio'.
> 2) To relax the restrictions that block users from using the sound
> system, create a new file, /etc/security/console.perms.d/80-sound.perms
>
> # define the sound device class
> <sound>=/dev/snd/*
> # permissions
> <console> 0666 <sound> 0666
I would probably made that into
<console> 0664 <sound> 0664 root.pulse-access
in your case ....
> This allows the sound devices to be accessible to all users.
... to make that accessible for those you want this access to happen.
>
> 3) Start a system-wide pulseaudio daemon by adding lines to
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local. The daemon starts before anyone has logged in,
> and runs forever.
>
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --system --log-level=3 --log-target=syslog
> /usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
>
> 4) Prevent xfce from starting another redundant pulseaudio process.
> Edit /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc to comment out these lines:
>
> ## if test x"`which pulseaudio 2>/dev/null`" != x""; then
> ## pulseaudio -D &
> ## fi
I guess that I would be a bit more careful
if ! pgrep -u $(whoami) -f pulseaudio >/dev/null ; then
type -p pulseaudio >/dev/null && pulseaudio -D &
fi
> If anyone can explain why this is not an appropriate default setup for
> Fedora, I would love to hear it.
See 'man pulseaudio' about pulse-rt and related things. It may be a
good idea once you played startup3.wav to do 'pulseaudio -k' and
restart it again later in a different stance.
Yes, I know; something straight for newbies.
Michal
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