Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only dummy audio available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-25 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Colin Guthrie wrote: There should be some info kicking around about system mode PA if you google around for it. I don't have much success with getting audio for two users with pulseaudio. I start pulsaudio as root with these options: # pulseaudio --log-target=syslog --system -D

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only dummy audio available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-25 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Tomasz Chmielewski at 25/11/09 18:27 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie wrote: There should be some info kicking around about system mode PA if you google around for it. I don't have much success with getting audio for two users with pulseaudio. I start pulsaudio as root

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only dummy audio available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-25 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Colin Guthrie wrote: This is typically a permissions problem. Does the pulse user (which IIRC is used by system mode) have permissions to open the sound devices? All right, this was it! I wish pulsaudio with multiple users was more straightforward one day. -- Tomasz Chmielewski

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only dummy audio available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-25 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Tomasz Chmielewski at 25/11/09 19:02 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie wrote: This is typically a permissions problem. Does the pulse user (which IIRC is used by system mode) have permissions to open the sound devices? All right, this was it! I wish pulsaudio with

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only dummy audio available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-22 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Tomasz Chmielewski at 22/11/09 01:22 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie wrote: To achieve what you want you need to stop running a separate PA for each user and instead one system-wide version (see the --system) argument. You then need to add each user to the pulse-access

[pulseaudio-discuss] only dummy audio available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-21 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
I have a multiseat workstation - two graphics cards, two keyboards/mice, two monitors, but one audio card. Before pulseaudio was mainstream, I was using ALSA, and both users could use audio. Now, as my distribution started to use pulseaudio (0.9.20 since a few weeks), only one user can use

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only dummy audio available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-21 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Daniel Chen wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org wrote: Now, as my distribution started to use pulseaudio (0.9.20 since a few weeks), only one user can use audio. The second user only has dummy audio device when starting pulseaudio. Is module-x11-xsmp

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only dummy audio available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Tomasz Chmielewski at 21/11/09 21:18 did gyre and gimble: I have a multiseat workstation - two graphics cards, two keyboards/mice, two monitors, but one audio card. Before pulseaudio was mainstream, I was using ALSA, and both users could use audio. This isn't really

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only dummy audio available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-21 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Colin Guthrie wrote: To achieve what you want you need to stop running a separate PA for each user and instead one system-wide version (see the --system) argument. You then need to add each user to the pulse-access group to ensure they are allowed to talk to the PA process. What is