Hi
I have pulse 0.9.10 working fine in per-user mode on my ubuntu hardy
system (using debian packages from the PPA listed below).
/etc/default/pulse.pa is configured to use module-native-protocol-unix:
load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-group=pulse-access
Now I want to play sounds when ssh'd to another user account on the same
box. If I don't change anything, but manually chmod the per-user socket
directory as a hack, I can play sounds from this other user account using
aplay fine (and if I don't chmod the directory and attempt to play sounds
using aplay from that other user account, I get a connection refused
message). But if I edit /etc/default/pulseaudio to set the variable that
ubuntu uses to request starting pulse system-wide, kill the per-user pulse
daemon, and run
sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start
(without changing any other configuration) then attempting to play a sound
with aplay doesn't work (regardless of whether the user I am is the one I
logged into using gdm). It seems happy - no connection refused message,
exits successfully - but no sound:
$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/generic.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
$ echo $?
0
Clues?
Using module-native-protocol-tcp works (allows other users to play
sounds), but it annoys me to use TCP when I only ever want to connect from
the local machine!-)
After starting system-wide:
$ ps ax | grep pulse
16893 ? S<sl 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log-target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=1
16899 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
$ cat /home/john/.asoundrc
# ALSA library configuration file
# Include settings that are under the control of asoundconf(1).
# (To disable these settings, comment out this line.)
</home/john/.asoundrc.asoundconf>
$ cat /home/john/.asoundrc.asoundconf
# ALSA library configuration file managed by asoundconf(1).
#
# MANUAL CHANGES TO THIS FILE WILL BE OVERWRITTEN!
#
# Manual changes to the ALSA library configuration should be implemented
# by editing the ~/.asoundrc file, not by editing this file.
pcm.!default { type pulse }
ctl.!default { type pulse }
pcm.pulse { type pulse }
ctl.pulse { type pulse }
I'm using the debian packages from this PPA, as a fix for some flash
issues:
https://launchpad.net/~psyke83/+archive
Thanks
John
