On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 17:24 -0700, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > Maarten Bosmans wrote: > > 2010/6/3 Manuel Klemenz <m.klemenz at gmx.at>: > >> Hi guys... > >> > >> I'm running a small Linux box/server in my home network where also my speaker > >> are attached. this box is running 24/7 (at least almost) and only accessible > >> over network - so no mouse, keyboard or video output is attached thereto. > > > > I've got something similar here, but mostly using the sound server for > > recording/streaming purposes with a USB soundcard. > > > >> A year ago I set up the box to run pulseaudio as system wide deamon in order > >> to route my laptop's sound output there when I'm at home (utilizing gentoo's > >> init-scripts). As I've read in PA's wiki, this setup is strongly discouraged > >> and PA shouldn't be run in this way. Additionally those scripts are no longer > >> installed after updating/upgrading PA to 0.9.21 > > > > In Ubuntu the init script is still available. (disabled by default, of course) > > > >> so here's my question: how do I avoid this config - or in other words, what's > >> the recommended way for such a setup? > > > > I would say that this is one of the few (perhaps the only?) cases in > > which system wide PulseAudio makes sense. It is discouraged mainly for > > desktops setups. You can search the mailing list archives for a > > rationale. > > > > It's certainly not the only case. To me, it's a naturally desirable > feature. > > I'd just like to take this opportunity to urge the developers to > maintain the "system wide" configuration option.. I understand the > motivation for advising against the sound server setup for most users, > but I strongly hope that this usage does not become deprecated. > > I hope the *capacity* to do this is maintained in the future, even if > (for whatever reason) the docs remain prejudiced against it. I'd hate > to see it go away by fiat. Without it, pulseaudio only reaches half its > potential :) Its not something that is 'taken away'. From a code-base perspective I think pretty much the same things are run, except run as root and hence without the shared-memory advantage, as well as being a security issue. I'm not sure if pulseaudio is really zero-copy when run as root, not familiar with the codebase.
