Crontab as alarm clock with ogg123
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Sat Jul 31 17:20:43 UTC 2010
jack craig wrote:
>
> On 07/30/2010 12:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox<theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:59 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any ideas much appreciated?
>>>>
>>> Looks like you have the authorization for the sound device sorted out;
>>> there may also be something you have to do to tell pulseaudio to play
>>> sound for a user who is not currently logged in.
>>>
>>> I don't know enough about pulseaudio to guide you there; perhaps a
>>> google search for something like "pulseaudio user authentication" or
>>> "pulseaudio user authorization" will be of value?
>>>
>> Solved:
>>
>> I simply removed pulseaudio and it works fine now. (on F11)
>>
>> #yum remove pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>>
>> I must say, I find it kind of Windows-Like of Pulseaudio to force
>> users to be logged in for audio to work. I think ALSA works just fine.
>>
>>
> in all fairness, PA has been working fine for me...
>
Meaning that you are logged in all the time, of course.
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