Richi Plana wrote: > I should probably add that a machine's audio resources only becomes > available to others if 1) the firewall is inactive, and 2) it doesn't > "require authentication". But again, it only appears fleetingly. > > So now I've 3 problems: > > 1) How do I reconfigure the firewall so that it will allow PA services? You need to open port 5353/udp for avahi and port 4713/tcp for pulse. > 2) How do PA sessions authenticate users? See the options listed here: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#module-native-protocol-unixtcp You can use anon or IP based ACL. It can also use X11 based auth but that's not always super handy. > 3) How do I make the virtual device actual stick (instead of just > disappearing like that)? If this is 0.9.7 then I'm not really sure (as I wrote in my other mail), but hopfully I misread and you're actually using the 0.9.8 from rawhide and simply disabling the suspension of the device will work around it and patching will fix it. Col
