pulseaudio, howto make it work?

[Les Mikesell]

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
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