pulseaudio, howto make it work?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 22 August 2008, Russell Miller wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Gene Heskett 
<gene.heskett at verizon.net>wrote:
>> >just a thought, if padmin is seeing ac97 and not sbo-400, could you
>>
>> possibly
>>
>> >be having address conflict.
>>
>> Never had one before pulseaudio.  No legitimate reason I should have one
>> now.
>
>Have you tried checking to see if your user has permission to write to the
>audio device?  If it doesn't, pulseaudio will pretend it's not even there.
>
Only one user, me=root.  Yes there are other 'users' on this machine, all of 
which do things that users should do, like gene fetching email, amanda doing 
the backups, yadda yadda.

>The fedora gods insist this isn't a bug (someone resolved it with NOTABUG,
>yippee), so you're not going to see a fix.  But if that truly is the
>problem, just adjust your udev rules to create it with the correct
>permissions and add yourself to rt-pulse.  Fixed it for me.

rt-pulse?  No such file here according to locate.

>Hooray for moving forward.

Somehow I don't feel like celebrating, its nothing but breakage IMO.

>--Russell

Thanks Russell.

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