On Fri, 01.01.10 12:43, Markus Rechberger (mrechberger at gmail.com) wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote: > > Since I didn't get much response with my more polite e-mail, here's > > what I really think, given my current ignorance about pulseaudio... > > > > PulseAudio is cool, but I fear it's over-engineered by some Ph.D's > > with too much elegance in their solution, and not enough real world > > experience. ?Run as user? ?Really? > > > > it would be ok as long as it would support multiple users. > The problem is that it doesn't care about /etc/group audio permissions and thus > breaks backward compatibility with alsa. That is bullshit. > You have a few options > * the easiest one is to remove pulseaudio and get audio work again as > it was meant to be (which is also conform to all other unixsystems) Please don't post FUD like this on this ML. If you want to spread FUD then I can tell you there are much better fora for that. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4