Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> The problems we have right now are sufficiently sever to be
>> showstoppers. At the SpeakupModified.Org we recommend disabling
>> pulseaudio. As things stand in F-9, one gets no audio until after a user
>> logs in on the GUI. So, how are those who need screen reader support
>> supposed to use the a11y features of GDM? As it stands, there seems no
>> way to get console audio without that GUI login. Also a nonstarter in
>> the screen reader user community.
> 
> If you want to run terminal applications, can't you just log in to a
> full screen gnome-terminal?
> 
>> It seems a useful initial step toward resolution is to run pulseaudio
>> as a system daemon, via an init script, /sbin/service, /sbin/chkconfig.
>> The trade-offs vs the per user model that F-9 employs are probably more
>> than acceptable to most a11y users.
>>
>> So, let me simply ask ... Has anyone a working init script for
>> pulseaudio as a system daemon? Anything close that we could continue to
>> refine as an alternative configuration option for Fedora?
> 
> We're going to be removing the legacy non-X system consoles by default
> in the long run.

Aside from the fact that this little nugget derailed the thread due to 
the many people (rightly*, IMO) freaking out, I fail to see where any 
part of your message to which I am replying was of any relevance 
whatsoever to this thread. PA as a system daemon should work (or, 
perhaps, not work) regardless of what happens to "non-X system consoles" 
in the future. Nor do I even see where Janina said *anything* about 
them, or even about consoles or the CLI in general.

Did I miss something?

(*...though you still haven't answered if you really want to kill non-X 
consoles or just hide them really well, which would have avoided all that.)

-- 
Matthew
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