how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Dec 17, 2007 8:20 PM, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I run a headless home music server named musicbox that uses PA and
> runs mpd.  When my wife or I want to watch a movie, we just redirect the
> sound output from our respective laptops to musicbox.  Mpd has a PA
> plugin, so it was quite easy to configure.

Thanks, no matter what other people think.. i think it helps to have a
specific implementation
example to use as a baseline reference.  Is mpd even in the mainline
Fedora repository? Or am I blind?

>
> The only problem I ran into was in trying to get PA to run as a
> system-wide daemon.  I had to track down why it couldn't
> open /dev/snd/*, and finally worked out that it was a permissions
> problem, easily fixed using ConsoleKit.
>
> All that to say that except for the permissions problems, it just
> worked.

Is this fixable via some change in default policy that can be done via
packaging payload or via mpd scriptlet? Or does this have to be done
via local admin action?  I will admit that ConsoleKit still confuses
me because it runs counter to muscle memory.

-jef