On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > Well pacmd isn't really a regular PA client.... it connects via a > different IPC mechanism. It would be better to use pactl here I believe. Right, it would be preferable to use pactl (which would need patching). > Regardless I'm not too sure what is happening here that would be > different to before. Perhaps the fix for #771 (not accessing the mixer > when not the active user) is at fault here. It turned out to be a brown paper bag bug, using pacmd foo instead of echo foo|pacmd. > You seem to try and run pacmd for all users, but really only the PA > processes from the active seats (found via consolekit) really needs to > do this as all other users wont have access the h/w anyway. Very good point. Best, -Dan
