On Wed, 15.04.09 18:14, Brad Midgley (bmidgley at gmail.com) wrote: > Hey > > The info I can find about multiseat sound with pulseaudio is several > months old. Lennart was saying you can't use a daemon in system mode > and to avoid HAL but the examples use system mode. Examples? Which examples? > What is the best way to do this currently? I want to use built-in and > usb-connected sound for two seats for starters. I'd prefer if I don't > have to hardcode users to a specific seat. This all is very much in flux. I have never toyedd around with multiseat myself so I cannot tell you how it could work right now. There are some plans to make Fedora more compatible with multiseat setups: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Multiseat I guess the basic idea is to have some kind of multiseat support in ConsoleKit so that everyone can query it to figure out which hw belongs to which seat. But nobody worked on that yet. And hence PA doesn't care either about that info. There needs to be some kind of daemon that honours the seat definitions and sets up device ACLs accordingly. The daemon that was supposed to do this was HAL. Now HAL is dead and udev-acl from the udev-extras is supposed to take over. But that tool is mostly a proof of concept right now. In summary: everything that is available right now in this area is hackish, incomplete. And AFAIK nobody is actually and actively working on changing the situation. Things seldomly get fixed by themselves. Somebody needs to get his hands dirty. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
