On 02/02/2015 05:22 PM, sean darcy wrote:
On 02/02/2015 03:23 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
2015-02-02 22:18 GMT+02:00 sean darcy seandarcy2@gmail.com:
On 02/02/2015 03:10 PM, sean darcy wrote:
I'm trying to play some sound as a user. But pulseaudio can't find any outputs:
$ aplay -l aplay: device_list:268: no soundcards found...
But, as root, aplay sees the integrated sound card:
How are you logged in in the system? My impression is that sound devices in fedora are set up to be available to the user who is physically present.
-Joonas
This should be remote user. I want to use it as a sound server from anywhere in the house.
This should be common use case. What's the trick to making it work, or does someone need to go the the basement each time ?
The desktop install of Fedora should permit whomever is logged in at the console to play audio. If you don't have a user logged in at the console, then pulse is probably not even running since it's spawned by the X session startup.
You can run pulse at boot as the root user to make it act like a sound server, but you'll need to configure it to use various sinks as outputs. Have a look at "man pulse-daemon.conf", "man default.pa" and "man pulse-cli-syntax" for details on how to set that up.
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