On Tue, 08.04.08 10:27, Jim Duda (jim at duda.tzo.com) wrote: > > This whole entire issue simply turned out to be a permissions issue. Even a permissions issue while attempting to run > pulseaudio as root. > > It turns out that I need to chmod 666 /dev/snd/* for this to work. > > chmod 660 /dev/snd/* causes pulseaudio to not be able to open the alsa device. > > I don't quite understand why, but this issue is now resolved for me. If you run PA in system mode, than it will drop privs and becomes a normal process as user "pulse". You thus have to give access to the audio devices to that user, no 666 necessary. setfacl -m u:pulse:rwX /dev/snd/* Please file a bug to upstream ALSA asking that they return EPERM or EACCES on an access failure instead of the misleading EINVAL they are apparently returning. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
