Re: Sound on multi-user system
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:58:29PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > I don't know if they somehow share access to audio, but I guess they
> > should. We really need to talk to the pulseaudio guys to get this right,
> > and I'm pretty confident that it's doable. (I'm not familiar with
> > consumer desktops)
>
> The very fact that pulseaudio has a system mode makes me confident as
> well. Maybe there would just need some more integration to be done on
> Debian side - if any app does not see how to access the pulseaudio
> server, it seems it will currently happily try to access alsa directly.
In fact, the system does not look like it done for that use, and
pulseaudio claims it works correctly with consolekit.
So it looks like I'd just have to battle with pulse configuration (for
some reason, it doesn't work out of the box...)
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