audio access

xPol xtekhne at gmail.com
Wed Jun 9 04:33:24 UTC 2010


Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> and, apparently, pulse audio? Then the KDE, etc. apps will access
> the sound devices indirectly through a pulse audio daemon and have
> permission that way. I guess the daemon either filters other users or
> provides an environment variable which can only be accessed from
> within the session started by KDM/KDE.
> 
>> Anyway, i will add users to that group and see

It doesn't work
I have checked that user belongs to the 'audio' group, then
  % dbus-launch konqueror

youtube videos are displayed, but no audio
Maybe a reboot is needed? 

> 
>> l /dev/snd/
> 
> If you use "ls -l", you'll see that the group is "audio", meaning
> that any user in that group will be able to access the device

yes, the group is 'audio'

What should i do with the Pulse audio sound system? 
Is it needed?

Thank you 
---P






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