On Sun, 2015-04-05 at 13:06 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
I want to have sound when logged in as root. I don't care if
it's a good
idea or not.
And I don't care if it's pulseaudio or alsa, or whatever.
I've tried pulseaudio -D, but the volume control never can connect to
the daemon. It just spams syslog with:
pulseaudio[6288]: Denied access to client with invalid authentication data.
I've added system-instance = yes to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf.
I've read
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Sy...
.
I've set up the users and groups as described.
.esd_auth exists in /var/run/puls
Does anyone have audio working as root?
I am assuming that you mean that you are logging into your window
manager as root. But just to cover the other option...
I logged am logged into Xfce4 as my regular user and working in an
xfce4-termnal window. I can:
sudo tcsh
#mpg123 laser.mp3
#aplay dot_matrix_printer.wav
Both work fine. So, for me "using sound as root" is working.
I don't feel that Xfce or other windowing systems have ever been
designed to work with a root login. Yes, I know that people do it, but
to me it is sort of like asking "why can't I login as ~nobody if I want
to?". It is just *not* setup for it.
--
Doug H.