Heya! Just wanted to mention that PA in git now can use udev instead of HAL to discover audio devices. This is part of the "HALsecotomy" that's currently going on. A bit of functionality is (temporarily) lost however: in the udev world there is no replacement for HAL's session switching/ACL management yet. The new code in PA however is written in a way that should just work when we add this to udev later on. However the lacking ACL handling makes things very racy right now and you might need to add yourself to "audio" group, as a temporary workaround. We mostly figured out how session switching/ACL management should be working, it's just a matter that Jon and Kay need to implement that. Please note that this requires kernel 2.6.30 to work. Only on 2.6.30 and newer non-priviliged processes can listen for udev events. This could be fixed in libudev by calling a little suid binary that passes on those events to the library when running on older kernels, but so far nobody cared enough to do that. If you care, then I am sure that Kay would be willing to merge a patch. So in summary: - the new udev logic needs kernel >= 2.6.30 - the new udev logic needs udev >= 141 - the new udev logic needs udev-extras from today's git. If you don't have that either use the old HAL mess or simply upgrade... ;-) And distributors, please make sure to add these versioned dependencies to your PA packages. Also, consider passing --disable-hal when building PA. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
