No Pulse Audio, Permissions?

[Hugh Caley]

I'm getting sound, the OSS driver in Audacious works, but Pulse doesn't 
seem to work.  I get the following in /var/log/messages during startup:

> Aug  5 11:53:01 joss pulseaudio[2193]: polkit.c: Cannot set UID on 
> session object.
> Aug  5 11:53:01 joss pulseaudio[2193]: main.c: Called SUID root and 
> real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. 
> However, we lack the necessary priviliges:
> Aug  5 11:53:01 joss pulseaudio[2193]: main.c: We are not in group 
> 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID 
> again.
> Aug  5 11:53:01 joss pulseaudio[2193]: main.c: For enabling real-time 
> scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or 
> become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the 
> RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
> Aug  5 11:53:01 joss pulseaudio[2193]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, 
> (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
> Aug  5 11:53:01 joss pulseaudio[2193]: main.c: 
> setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
My own user (hughc) is a member of 'pulse-rt'.  I'm not sure what it is 
complaining about here.

Hugh

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