[pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

2010-02-08 Thread olin . pulse . 7ia
PA is a system that manages access to a hardware resource, in a network distributed context. Such a system must have mechanism for managing authentication and privileges -- one that works in a network distributed context. X11 is in a very similar position -- except that there's less call for

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

2010-02-08 Thread olin . pulse . 7ia
Bill Cox: While the right way is not system-wide mode, in practice, I find system-wide mode to be very stable and usable on Ubuntu systems that have multiple users trying to send sound to the speakers. So, I'm still wondering: what *is* the right way for this use case? Is it the case that

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

2010-02-08 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:01 AM, olin.pulse@shivers.mail0.org wrote: Bill Cox: While the right way is not system-wide mode, in practice, I find system-wide mode to be very stable and usable on Ubuntu systems that have multiple users trying to send sound to the speakers. So, I'm still