canonical approach to shared sound?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Apr 15 22:07:55 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:10:14AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> AFAIK this should Just Work. ConsoleKit is designed to do this without
> hassle, so your best bet may be to back out any changes you've made.
> I've used it successfully on F8. You can't play sound on two consoles at

I haven't changed anything yet from the stock F9-beta install.

> the same time, but they can alternate, which seems reasonable.

For what its worth, on my old (Fedora 7) setup, sounds could be played
simultaneously in both places with no problem. But I don't really need that.
(Except, isn't pulseaudio supposed to mediate exactly such sharing?)

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