Around about 08/03/10 17:24, Mikkel typed ...
Before you do a lot of debugging, your system is working properly
with the default setup. <snip one PA at a time>
I don't fully understand this; with F10, I never had any problems with
PAS and multiple users, to the degree that if my wife was playing music I
could switch back to my login, have sounds myself and then switch back and
her music would start back up.
Maybe I was just always lucky with timings and logged her in after my PA
had timed out, but that doesn't feel right.
One way to get around this is to run a system wide PA daemon. But
make sure you understand the security risk of doing so. (They are
pointed out in the docs.)
OK, thanks, I'll read up on that. Although I'm suspicious that I've just
disabled gdm sound because *it* was hogging the sound and locking up users
logins when they tried to sound out, and that sounds a bit like having a
system-wide PA set up.
If my memory about PA releasing the sound card, you may be able to
work around it by tweeking the timeout setting, and making sure you
do not get any system sounds when changing users.
I'll look at timing settings as well, thanks.
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[neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil@fnx ~]# exit