----- "Lennart Poettering" <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > On Sat, 29.08.09 13:08, Nasa (nasa01 at comcast.net) wrote: > > > > The recommended way to start PA is via > > > /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop (for x11 sessions) and > > > autospawning (for the console and as extra safety net). > > > > > > In fact PA upstream installs itself that way out-of-the-box... > > > > > I am starting the frontend via mingetty/xsession -- so I don't think > > > the autostart option would work... > > > > I can start it from xsession -- but it doesn't work. I can't play > audio > > from anything within the X session, but if I kill the X session I > can do a > > "pulseaudio --check" and/or play audio -- and both basically work > (although > > the sound can be cracking some of the time). > > You are aware that PA is a user daemon? It needs to run as the same > user as its clients. Yes, Maybe I didn't quite explain it right... If I login into a terminal and do a pulseaudio --start, then a "mplayer *mp3" I will get the song playing.. If I then do a startx and from the frontend open up a new terminal and then do a "mplayer *mp3" I will get connection refused errors. "whoami" in both terminals will return the same user. So call me confused... Nasa > > > BTW: it seems if pulseaudio dameon isn't started, mplayer will start > it any > > ways when attempting to play an audio file... > > Yes, that's what I was referring to above as "autospawning". > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
