pulseaudio, howto make it work?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Aug 24 18:41:42 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 13:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > 
> > ----
> > You don't seem to care that things like NetworkManager and PulseAudio
> > are trying to solve userland device control over things that have on
> > Linux been traditionally root controlled devices/daemons.
> 
> And for very good reasons on a multiuser OS that is not constrained to 
> single-user access through a single magic keyboard.  Try floating your 
> session around with freenx/NX, or having several different logins at 
> once to see how little sense it makes to logically tie things to a 
> console-related session that don't belong there at all.
----
I was under the impression that pulseaudio represents a considerable
enhancement over esd for server/remote client sound but as you know
there are always bandwidth issues for that type of service.

Craig




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