how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Tue Dec 18 18:57:34 UTC 2007


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 18.12.07 13:46, Denis Leroy (denis at poolshark.org) wrote:
> 
>>>>>> It's not that PA doesn't work at all on those special no-X-involved
>>>>>> setups. The only limitation is that you need to run PA manually in
>>>>>> such setups. -- No big deal!
>>>>> Is there something like a session pam module planned to start PA to
>>>>> achieve independence from the the login entry point?
>>>> I am not convinced that PAM is the right place to start any daemons.
>>> But gdm is?
>> why not start PA from an init script ?
> 
> Because it is a per-user/per-session daemon. Not a system daemon.

but there's only one set of speakers per system, so I don't understand 
the logic here. Multiple instances of PA can coexist ? Does PA handle 
user switching correctly for example ? What if i want somebody to 
connect through ssh on my system and run an mp3 for me, can i allow them 
to do so ?




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