On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:53 AM, A. C. Censi <accensi at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: >> >> timo wrote: >> >> Good good. Wonder why Ubuntu went for system wide? ... > > In my standard Intrepid (8.10), there is a system wide pulseaudio loader on > init.d, but the default action is to avoid loading of pulseaudio > system-wide. There is a switch in /etc/default/pulseaudio that disallows > system-wide loading with a very strong warning against it:: > # Start the PulseAudio sound server in system mode. > # (enables the pulseaudio init script) > # System mode is not the recommended way to run PulseAudio as it has some > # limitations (such as no shared memory access) and could potentially allow > # users to disconnect or redirect each others audio streams. The > # recommend way to run PulseAudio is as a per-session daemon. For GNOME > # sessions you can install pulseaudio-esound-compat and GNOME will > # automatically start PulseAudio on login (if ESD is enabled in > # System->Preferences->Sound). For other sessions, you can simply start > # PulseAudio with "pulseaudio --daemonize". > # 0 = don't start, 1 = start > PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=0 Yes, you're right. Just checked on a fresh 8.10 and on a system that went from 8.04 > 8.10, and both have pulseaudio running in per-user mode. The /etc/default/pulseaudio file on my system must have changed somewhere somehow over the past couple of years, my bad.
