'Twas brillig, and Tomasz Chmielewski at 25/11/09 19:02 did gyre and gimble: > Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> This is typically a permissions problem. Does the "pulse" user (which >> IIRC is used by system mode) have permissions to open the sound devices? > > All right, this was it! > > I wish pulsaudio with multiple users was more straightforward one day. Well it is rather simple with multiple users... just not at the same time! The multi-seat setup is still rather niche compared to the multi-user setup (e.g. OSX+Windows do the same multi-user stuff we enable OOTB too). Even on multi-seat systems, most of the time each seat has it's own dedicated device (e.g. USB speakers) or similar. This is being dealt with and will be supported with a standard pulse install reasonably soon (whenever the consolekit/udev support is there basically). So really, we're not too bad for the 99% percent of use cases :p Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
