On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 04:57:56PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > Hi. > > I switched to a new workstation at work. This machine apparently has no > working PC beeper anymore. While it appears in ALSA mixer, I can't get > it to produce any sound, neither via plain console, nor via BRLTTY > beeper output (and yes, the kernel module (forgot name) is loaded.) > There are two groups involved in pulsaudio: pulse:x:495:adrian,mail pulse-access:x:494:adrian,mail
As you can see I added myself and the mail user to these groups to enable make noise. You could fiddle around with that. > So I am looking for alternative ways to get BRLTTY to produce audible > sounds again. The obvious route would be via PCM, however, on this > machine, I am using X11 setup as well, which needs working audio for > speech synthesis and occasional sound playback. As far as I understand, > the most reliable way to keep working audio in X11 is to bite the bullet > and use PulseAudio as that is what it wants to use by default. > As far as I understand, PulseAudio is launched as part of the X11 > session, not as a normal daemon by default. This apparently leads to > the situation that I can play audio from the console if I am logged in > with the same user as I am logged in with X11, however, I can not play > audio via PulseAudio as root. Additionally, PulseAudio seems to take > the soundcard exclusively, so I can not play audio via plain ALSA > either. Now, this isn't as bad as it sounds, since I probably shouldn't > do too many things as root anyway. So dropping back to a user console > and playing audio files there is actually a good habit to pick up. > However, there is the problem that BRLTTY runs as root, and doesn't have > PulseAudio output support right now. > > I am wondering what to do about this situation. As a prerequisite, I'd > like to avoid custom configuration as much as possible. Not because I > am lazy. I can configure a Linux desktop all day long if I really need > to. However, I can see that this might be an issue for other people in > the future as well, so I am looking for a solution that works without > forcing the user to do too much custom configuration on their part. > > My forward-looking idea would be: Why not add PulseAudio support to > BRLTTY, and enhance it with the capability of dropping to another user? > This sounds quite involved code-wise, so I wonder if there is any other > quick fix that would satisfy the above criteria of being non-invasive? > > -- > CYa, > ??????????????? > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- Adri P. van Bloois Antonlaan 104 email: [email protected] 3701 VG Zeist voice: +31-(0)-30-6912741 The Netherlands fax: NONE 52 05'15.77"N 5 4'44.56"E QTH-locater JO 22 OC "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." Edsger W. Dijkstra _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
