On 01.06.2015 17:35, Northern Lights Info wrote: > Well, this was the magic incantation to get the sound coming out. > This works as a regular user and if I run pulse audio as the root but NOT > in system mode. Did you create the groups and put your user (and probably root) in pulse-access as outlined in http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/ Then it should also work in system mode. > System mode still gives me the errors about not being able to load modules. > The question is, do I even need to use system mode if this is an embedded > application with only the root user? > It is not recommended to run pulse as root, so system mode is probably cleaner, but from the functionality there should be no difference.
