covici at ccs.covici.com <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote: > I have never gotten pulse to work at all, I had to bypass it to get any > audio in a text console. If anyone knows more, I can post the details. If you wanted to run some tests, I would suggest starting with paplay. It's like aplay, except that it directs output to PulseAudio directly. For Alsa applications, you need a configuration that directs output to PulseAudio. Under Debian, at least, this is provided by default. Note that Pulse is started when a D-Bus connection is made; you don't have to invoke it as a daemon. There's a way to set it up to run as a system-wide daemon as well, but I haven't tried that. Obviously this has security implications on multi-user systems, i.e., one user can interfere with another user's audio - not a problem on most workstations these days.
