how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 19.12.07 00:07, Denis Leroy (denis at poolshark.org) wrote:

>
> Michael E Brown wrote:
>> 1) copy the zonbu's ~guest/.pulse-cookie file to your home dir. (from
>> Lennart's previous email, I havent tested this.) This looks to me like
>> the best option.
>
> The file isn't readable to other of course, but even then, this doesn't 
> seem to work.

It doesn't? Please be more elaborate than "it doesn't seem to work"!

>> 2) ask your music player to directly use the alsa hw:0 device, and
>> probably twiddle permissions on the /dev/snd/ files.
>
> That indeed works.

BTW: Better user "front:0" or suchlike. hw:0 is not intended to be
used by normal user applications.

Lennart

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