'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 04/01/10 16:27 did gyre and gimble: > I wonder if the audio device permission rewriting should be disabled > somehow before the system-wide daemon works properly. The current > symptoms don't sound like you've hit this issue yet, but I would think > that the system-wide pulseaudio instance will lose access to the sound > card as soon as someone logs in. Make sure the "pulse" user is in the "audio" group. This bypasses the ACLs (as the audio nodes in /dev/snd/* should all be group owned by "audio"). No per-user PA daemon is started if there is a system-wide one already running (at least in theory), and the ACL adding and removing from the device nodes as users log in/out should have no effect. 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/]