On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:40 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 06:16:07PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 10:48 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > > > The pulseaudio changeover didn't affect how permissions were handled -- > > > that was all about moving from using pam_console to letting ConsoleKit > > > manage it. > > > > > > Even though the ownership of the devices is still root, ConsoleKit > > > should be adding your user to the ACLs on the devices. > > > > > > Is the "ConsoleKit" service started? It needs to be running. > > > > > > Does running "getfacl" on those devices list you in the entry? If > > > things are working correctly, it should. > > > > Thanks. > > /dev/snd/*, /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer all have valid ACLs. > > (user:gilboa:rw-) > > It looks like a pulseaudio problem. > > While it does start, I get no sound and older OSS/Alsa application > > either fail miserably (cannot open /dev/dsp) or stay mute. (amarok over > > xine) > > Yeah, it does look like something's up with pulseaudio. > > I'm not really well-versed in troubleshooting it, but most of the time > any problems I've had came from not having the right compatibility > modules or plugins installed, I suspect because I upgraded. > > It wasn't in the list of packages you listed because it doesn't have > "pulse" in its name, but do you have the "xine-libs-extras" package > installed? There's a "xineplug_ao_out_pulseaudio.so" plugin in there. Yep. $ rpm -qa | grep xine | sort gxine-0.5.11-8.fc8.x86_64 oxine-0.7.0-1.fc8.x86_64 xine-0.99.5-1.lvn8.x86_64 xine-lib-1.1.8-4.fc8.i386 xine-lib-1.1.8-4.fc8.x86_64 xine-lib-arts-1.1.8-4.fc8.x86_64 xine-lib-extras-1.1.8-4.fc8.x86_64 xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.8-4.lvn8.x86_64 xine-plugin-1.0-5.fc8.x86_64 xinetd-2.3.14-14.fc8.x86_64 $ locate xineplug_ao_out_pulseaudio.so /usr/lib64/xine/plugins/1.1.8/xineplug_ao_out_pulseaudio.so - Gilboa
