pulseaudio, howto make it work?

[Les Mikesell]

Craig White wrote:
> 
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>>> You don't seem to care that things like NetworkManager and PulseAudio
>>> are trying to solve userland device control over things that have on
>>> Linux been traditionally root controlled devices/daemons.
>> And for very good reasons on a multiuser OS that is not constrained to 
>> single-user access through a single magic keyboard.  Try floating your 
>> session around with freenx/NX, or having several different logins at 
>> once to see how little sense it makes to logically tie things to a 
>> console-related session that don't belong there at all.
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> I was under the impression that pulseaudio represents a considerable
> enhancement over esd for server/remote client sound but as you know
> there are always bandwidth issues for that type of service.

Yes, I believe pulseaudio can do remote session-based connections, but 
that's not necessarily what you want either and I'm not sure anything in 
fedora sets them up.  A machine may have one or more audio devices on 
the host, and you may want one or more of those devices to play 
something that is controlled by someone/something other than the user 
logged in at the console (if there is a console or such a user).

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   Les Mikesell
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