[pulseaudio-discuss] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

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Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Is running as user smart or dumb?

2010-01-01 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Bill Cox waywardg...@gmail.com wrote: Since I didn't get much response with my more polite e-mail, here's what I really think, given my current ignorance about pulseaudio... PulseAudio is cool, but I fear it's over-engineered by some Ph.D's with too much

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Switching resample_method on the fly?

2010-01-01 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 30.12.09 03:07, Bearcat M. Şandor (bear...@feline-soul.com) wrote: Using Pulseaudio 0.9.19 on gentoo amd64 Folks, I like to use resample-method=src-snc-best-quality for music (i upsample to 192k) and resample-method=src-snc-medium-quality for flash videos and videos. Until i

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] What is corking?

2010-01-01 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 25.12.09 20:23, David Henningsson (launchpad@epost.diwic.se) wrote: Corking means that the application asked for the audio stream to be corked temporarily, so that data flow stops. uncorking then makes things flow again. It's mostly synonymous to application triggered

[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio+Bluez acting as Bluetooth stereo headset - no sound yet

2010-01-01 Thread Burkhard Stubert
Hi chaps, A happy new year to you all. I want to turn my Ubuntu-Karmic-based eee-PC into a Bluetooth stereo headset (eventually, the eee will be replaced by a car infotainment system). The eee connects via Bluetooth to a mobile phone, which acts as an audio source for the eee. The music played

[pulseaudio-discuss] pacmd list-sink-inputs requested latency value

2010-01-01 Thread Cristian Morales Vega
Hi, I'm trying to understand the output from pacmd. My problem is that pacmd list-sinks outputs: configured latency: 0,00 ms; range is 56,00 .. 371,52 ms (no client connected) And when running the test program from the bottom of this message, pacmd list-sink-inputs always outputs requested

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Using pulseaudio with speakup

2010-01-01 Thread Bill Cox
Thanks, Colin. I can probably modify speech-dispatcher and speechdup-d to run as gdm on boot. I can probably also modify gdm code to look for speech-dispatcher and speechd-up as well, and relaunch them. It definately feels weird mucking about with the login package, though. However, even with

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Using pulseaudio with speakup

2010-01-01 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Bill Cox waywardg...@gmail.com wrote: However, even with these changes, there are bugs due to pulseaudio's user-based structure.  Today, in Karmic, if I 'switch user' to another use, my new gnome session has no sound.  That's because there are two pulseaudio

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Using pulseaudio with speakup

2010-01-01 Thread Bill Cox
No, the problem happens when I switch to a new user. On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Daniel Chen seven.st...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Bill Cox waywardg...@gmail.com wrote: However, even with these changes, there are bugs due to pulseaudio's user-based structure.  Today,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio+Bluez acting as Bluetooth stereo headset - no sound yet

2010-01-01 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
pe, 2010-01-01 kello 16:02 +0100, Burkhard Stubert kirjoitti: Hi chaps, A happy new year to you all. I want to turn my Ubuntu-Karmic-based eee-PC into a Bluetooth stereo headset (eventually, the eee will be replaced by a car infotainment system). The eee connects via Bluetooth to a mobile

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Using pulseaudio with speakup

2010-01-01 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
pe, 2010-01-01 kello 16:58 -0500, Bill Cox kirjoitti: Anyone out there every get hacked because you shared the Alsa back-end with another user? Anyone? I don't think anyone is going to get hacked because of this - it's rather rare that you say your passwords aloud. Instead of hacking issue,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Using pulseaudio with speakup

2010-01-01 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Tanu Kaskinen ta...@iki.fi wrote: pe, 2010-01-01 kello 16:58 -0500, Bill Cox kirjoitti: Anyone out there every get hacked because you shared the Alsa back-end with another user?  Anyone? I don't think anyone is going to get hacked because of this - it's rather

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Using pulseaudio with speakup

2010-01-01 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
la, 2010-01-02 kello 02:56 +0100, Markus Rechberger kirjoitti: On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Tanu Kaskinen ta...@iki.fi wrote: pe, 2010-01-01 kello 16:58 -0500, Bill Cox kirjoitti: Anyone out there every get hacked because you shared the Alsa back-end with another user? Anyone? I

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-01 Thread Bill Cox
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net wrote: I don't see why anyone would want to have audio when changing to root for admin purposes. Playing music certainly does not fall under admin purposes. Ever consider what happens when a blind user switches to root,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-01 Thread Bill Cox
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net wrote: And this is the problem because it works with alsa, simply add every user you want to give audio access to the audio group and it worked. Even with OSS this worked. But PA breaks this behaviour. First of all, we

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-01 Thread Bill Cox
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Colin Guthrie gm...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Halim Sahin at 23/12/09 13:24 did gyre and gimble: The Problem can be summarized in one sentence: Pulseaudio currently breaks multiuser systems and is only useful for one-user-desktop. Actually no,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-01 Thread Bill Cox
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Colin Guthrie gm...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Markus Rechberger at 24/12/09 14:02 did gyre and gimble: I think it's pretty clear what the problem is. PA does not support multiple users on one system.. I told you if you intend to replace the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-01 Thread Bill Cox
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net wrote: On Wed, 23.12.09 15:26, Halim Sahin (halim.sa...@freenet.de) wrote: Hi Col, 1. I gave you some examples what doesn't work as expected. How should I run my text-to-speech server before login to have

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-01 Thread Bill Cox
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net wrote: We actually cover that inside of gdm, where you can get access to the boot messages. Lennart Speakup doesn't stop reading when the user logs into Gnome. When we type Ctrl+Alt+F1, we get a console screen which

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-01 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 23:29 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Colin Guthrie gm...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Markus Rechberger at 24/12/09 14:02 did gyre and gimble: I think it's pretty clear what the problem is. PA does not support multiple users on one

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-01 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
pe, 2010-01-01 kello 23:13 -0500, Bill Cox kirjoitti: IMO, Halim's more important comment was that PulseAudio breaks accessibility. Speakup is either the #1 or #2 most popular Linux accessibility program for the blind and visually impaired. It starts at boot, as it should, so a blind person

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-01 Thread David Henningsson
Bill Cox wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net wrote: We actually cover that inside of gdm, where you can get access to the boot messages. Lennart Speakup doesn't stop reading when the user logs into Gnome. When we type Ctrl+Alt+F1, we get a