First of all, I will like to say thank you for a great piece of software. PulseAudio makes sound a mor pleasant experinence. Now to my problem. It is not with PA itself, but rather a matter of setting up my system to make things work. I have several USB devices; all from Logitech, incidently; that I want to use with my laptop. I am using Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze/testing on an i686 kernel. Before using PA I had my users in the "audio" group. After using PA for a while I removed all users from the "audio" group, and this solved all issues with user switching. I will try to reflect this in the Debian Wiki after successfully sorting out my present issue. The Debian wiki page for sound seems rather dated; it does not mention PA at all. After purging users from the "audio" group I am no longer able to use my USB sound devices; nether my headset nor the mic on my webcam works anymore, they simlly disappeared form the PA subsystem. The devices worked befor the purge. I have been advised that this is due to the lack of ACLs for the device nodes in /dev/snd, but I am at a loss in how to set this up in Debian. I understand that configuring the devicenodes is a task for the hotplug system together with udev and ConsoleKit, but I have little experience with setting theese up. Here are some snippets from the setup of my system: I use KDE and xine-backend for Phonon. frode at reepicheep:~$ uname -a Linux reepicheep 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Jul 24 02:27:10 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux When no USB device is plugged in: frode at reepicheep:~$ ls -l /dev/snd totalt 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 aug. 7 23:51 by-path crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 aug. 6 23:43 controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 aug. 6 23:43 hwC0D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 aug. 6 23:43 hwC0D1 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 aug. 7 23:51 pcmC0D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 aug. 7 23:51 pcmC0D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 aug. 7 21:47 pcmC0D1p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 aug. 6 23:43 pcmC0D2c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 aug. 6 23:43 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 aug. 6 23:43 timer After pluging in my Logitech USB headset: frode at reepicheep:~$ ls -l /dev/snd totalt 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 aug. 7 23:57 by-id drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 aug. 7 23:57 by-path crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 aug. 6 23:43 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 13 aug. 7 23:57 controlC1 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 aug. 6 23:43 hwC0D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 aug. 6 23:43 hwC0D1 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 aug. 7 23:51 pcmC0D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 aug. 7 23:51 pcmC0D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 aug. 7 21:47 pcmC0D1p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 aug. 6 23:43 pcmC0D2c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 12 aug. 7 23:57 pcmC1D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 11 aug. 7 23:57 pcmC1D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 aug. 6 23:43 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 aug. 6 23:43 timer frode at reepicheep:~$ mount |grep udev udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) I need some help in figuring out how to set this up on my system. Please also see http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/824#comment:10 for some background information. Please let me know if more information about my system setup is required. Regards ;)Frode -- Da sa Gud: "Det bli lys!" Og det ble lys. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1. Mosebok 1.3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Genesis 1:3, NIV
