2009/5/31 jdow jdow@earthlink.net:
You'd think if Linux and Fedora were so hot and wonderful there would be a system wide audio service that actually worked from consoles as well as from X. I need both to work to make my setup function correctly. So I am stuck, crippled. That does not seem to be a problem in Windows with multiple sessions as with Windows Server editions.
While not usually necessary, Pulseaudio can be run as a system-wide service.
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/SystemWideInstance
I don't know if the instructions work on Fedora (The example is for Debian), but hopefully someone more informed can enlighten us on that.
I also don't know if the vt sessions also start pulseaudio if it isn't running. At least I have had audio working nice when using a vt.