On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:36:52AM +0200, lee wrote:
Someone someone249@openmailbox.org writes:
I'm completely up to date, and I've rebooted several times. Has anyone had any luck with playing sound?
Logged in as a second user, that user cannot play sound. This hasn`t been fixed since F17 :(
Any idea how to fix that?
The only salient effect of pulseaudio, to my non-discriminating ears, is to impose misguided restrictions that prevent anyone but the first to login from creating sound. Empirically, these restrictions are implemented in the package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, and by removing it, the restrictions disappear. It's also necessary to edit /etc/group to make every last user a member of group 'audio'.
yum info alsa-plugins-pulseaudio tells us: This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record sound across a network.
Since I have discovered no need to operate sound across a network, but frequently want others than myself, ie, root, to generate audible signals, removing this package has been beneficial. After doing so I add to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local a line like /usr/bin/play /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg for a pleasing audible alert that systemd is finally done.