On Sat, 02.01.10 16:52, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > > I'm not quite sure how this works. When a speakup client wants access > > to the sound card, it could request access at high priority, and then > > plays it's sound. How would it hand back the sound card to the other > > user and uncork it? If this were automatic once the queue was empty > > for say one second, that would be great. Is this the sort of thing we > > can do with PA/CK? > > While this would theoretically work, I think it's probably not needed. > The reservation system is really meant for interacting with jack and > while it's not exclusive, I think it's not really an appropriate > technique to solve this problem. > > I think the general concept of the speech dispatchers running as a > system service is the bit that needs re-thought I agree. > and that adding hooks to consolekit (if they don't exist) and the > concept of an "idle user" are probably more practical long term > solutions. "idle user"? By that you mean some pseudo user session that the speakup daemon could be run under? If so, I agree. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
