Alsa/Sound/ in 10.04

[Basil Chupin]

On 03/05/10 16:29, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/02/2010 08:27 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> ...
>    
>> Get rid of Pulse Audio.
>>      
> Why? I enjoy the ability to push sound across my network&  play on
> another system with actual speakers. I've noticed that you've made the
> same suggestion in other threads&  multiple times on this thread.
> Perhaps these will help:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578
> [HOWTO: PulseAudio Fixes&  System-Wide Equalizer Support]
> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
>
> Oh BTW: removing ubuntu-desktop doesn't affect much of anything. Just
> remember to reinstall it before you do an revision upgrade (10.04 to
> 10.10 etc).
>    


BTW, NoOp, I came across this a little while ago while looking for 
something:



# Start the PulseAudio sound server in system mode.
# (enables the pulseaudio init script - requires that users be in the
# pulse-access group)
# System mode is not the recommended way to run PulseAudio as it has some
# limitations (such as no shared memory access) and could potentially allow
# users to disconnect or redirect each others' audio streams. The
# recommended way to run PulseAudio is as a per-session daemon. For 
GNOME/KDE/
# Xfce sessions in Ubuntu Lucid/10.04, /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop
# handles this function of automatically starting PulseAudio on login, 
and for
# it to work correctly your user must *not* have "autospawn = no" set in
# ~/.pulse/client.conf (or in /etc/pulse/client.conf). By default, autospawn
# is enabled. For other sessions, you can simply start PulseAudio with
# "pulseaudio --daemonize".
# 0 = don't start in system mode, 1 = start in system mode
PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=0

# Prevent users from dynamically loading modules into the PulseAudio sound
# server. Dynamic module loading enhances the flexibilty of the PulseAudio
# system, but may pose a security risk.
# 0 = no, 1 = yes
DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=1


The above is in /etc/default/pulseaudio, and the reference to "a 
security risk" caught my eye.

BC

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