pulseaudio, howto make it work?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 18:42:44 UTC 2008
Russell Miller wrote:
>
>> I believe pulseaudio has a framework that can act as a suitable sound
>> server for a multiuser system or even network-stream access across
>> multiple systems, but the fedora configuration emulates a toy
>> single-user box instead. The bug isn't so much with either pulseaudio
>> or consolekit specifically but with the choice to run pulseaudio in a
>> session rather than as a service. It just doesn't work for scenarios
>> where you don't dedicate the whole box to being someone's personal
>> device.
>>
> I think it's a very cogent point. At the same time, the usual use case
> for someone who would actually *use* audio is that they would be logged
> into the console and would be doing stuff that requires sound, and no
> one else would.
That would be the case on a single user OS. But one of the reasons you
would install a unix-like OS would be to get away from those limitations
and to be able to do things remotely without being tied to a particular
console window.
> Perhaps this is another case of making things easier for the vast
> majority of users while making things phenomenally more difficult for
> the edge cases. Shrug. Guess it's a design philosophy.
It just seems like a big mistake to throw away the advantages of the
unix-like system to give people what they were used to on their more
limited OS.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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