audio access

[Mark Greenwood]

On Wednesday 09 Jun 2010 05:33:24 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? 
> 
> > 
> >> 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?

Pulseaudio in Kubuntu is very broken (and not supported by the Kubuntu devs). It's a shame, 'cos it's really good...

However to answer your question, no you don't need it. Also, permissions for accessing pulseaudio are quite complex - I think the user needs to be in the 'pulse-access' group, but I think there might be other things you need to set up as well. Easiest to just remove it.

Mark

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> Thank you 
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