Thx for your prompt response. At work now so no more can be done until tonight. > > Excellent call. Did a "chmod 0666 /dev/snd/*" which resulted in: > > In theory, this chmod shouldn't be needed, this is probably > console-kit's fault... getfacl should show your user as being granted > permission here... Oh wait, you are using system mode right? Then > perhaps the pulse user does not have access. Perhaps the pulse user > should be added to the "audio" group (assuming the files are group owned > by the audio group. I agree that my approach is _very_ messy. Running as root with "--system", chmod'ing & etc is far from "best practice". I'll tidy it all up when it's working. My original approach of running as root was to overcome these permission problems. Clearly, I didn't know that pulseaudio did a setuid. > > D: module-alsa-sink.c: Thread starting up > > D: rtpoll.c: Acquired POSIX realtime signal SIGRTMIN+29 > > E: module-alsa-sink.c: Assertion '(areas[0].step >> 3) == u->frame_size' > > failed at modules/module-alsa-sink.c:177, function mmap_write(). > > Aborting. === end === > > Ahhh indeed. This is the error I got when running pulse on my PS3! I > really should have reported this before, but I didn't really play that > long with Linux on the PS3. > > > === begin === > > # aplay -D plughw:0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav > > Playing WAVE 'music/wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, > > Mono <sound from speakers - but no pulseaudo running> > > === end === > > This just proves the device and permissions work. It seems the assert > above is the real problem. OK, progress has been made. Not sure how far I'll get but I'll have a look and see what I can come up with. Once again, thanks for your help, its greatly appreciated. Kevin
