how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Tue Dec 18 23:05:07 UTC 2007


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2007 1:36 PM, Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> wrote:
>> The zonbu is also connected to my stereo system, which i can hear from
>> my office. So i will often ssh into the zonbu and play an mp3 from the
>> wireless-mounted NFS directory. Now PA means i have to log in as the
>> same guest user, which is not necessarily ideal because of the nfs mount
>> permissions, but certainly workable. Now of course i can just disable PA
>> in this case and be happy. But you were asking for a specific scenario.
> 
> What do you use to play the mp3 from the remote ssh session?  Is this
> a case of device permissions not being set like you need via
> ConsoleKit... or is it
> really a problem concerning PA's operation?

good point, it seems to be a permission with /dev/dsp indeed. Colin is 
right, if PA's user is not actually playing any sound, then it works if 
I chmod /dev/dsp the right way.




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