sound doesn't work until I login

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 10:36 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> if you run a script anyway you can indeed just start a session
> pulseaudio... just put:
> 
> pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
> 
> into your script at the top and turn off the system wide start you
> enabled yesterday... that will give you a proper user owned pulse
> like started from the graphical session.

Pffffffff - that worked fine. What a long and roundabout way I took!

Sound now plays on boot, without me having to use system mode. And I
added a pacmd command just after running pulseaudio; it sets the volume
very nicely.

I'm starting to understand why Ralf doesn't like pulseaudio. It is not
easy to use and is very poorly documented. I still have no idea how I
can control the sound from outside my script. Luckily I don't need
to...

Regards, K.

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