audio access

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Wednesday 09 June 2010, xPol wrote:
> 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?

As with most things Linux, a re-login should do.
Is dbus-launch strictly necessary for konqueror?

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

I uninstalled everything to do with pulse audio not needed by KDE and 
selected xine as the backend in the KDE multimedia settings. I'm 
pretty sure no sound daemons are running and blocking the sound 
devices, but then, what do I know... :-P

You may want to try watching those videos using Firefox to make sure 
that it isn't just konqueror acting up. If that fails, you could 
download one and try playing it directly using xine (install xine-ui 
if you haven't already), to exclude problems with the flash plugin.

  --Reinhold