pulseaudio, howto make it work?

[john wendel]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm curious about the value of pulse (and the other sound servers, esd, 
arts, whatever).  I don't use a sound server and the sound on my box 
works perfectly. What am I missing?

Regards,

John