On Tue, 15.07.08 11:30, Don Raikes (don at draikes.com) wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed fedora 9 last night. As a blind user, I need the audio > output to work both for console applications as well as for the gnome > desktop. > > I am having problems getting pulseaudio to work. > > When I run: > $ pulseaudio > as a regular user, I get: > > N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary priviliges: > N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID again. > N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user. > W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted > W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted > E: main.c: daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing to > work. Try running pulseaudio -vv. The output will be much more elaborate then, and will help you finding what the problem might be and why PA doesn't recognize your sound card. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
