On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 14:57 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > Just finished installing F10 with next to no problems. My only real > issue at this time is audio. > > In "messages" I get > Jan 7 14:40:50 eagle1 pulseaudio[11232]: main.c: Called SUID root and > real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. > However, we lack the necessary privileges: > > Jan 7 14:40:50 eagle1 pulseaudio[11232]: main.c: We are not in group > 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us privileges. Dropping SUID again. > > Jan 7 14:40:50 eagle1 pulseaudio[11232]: main.c: For enabling real-time > scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or > become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO > resource limits for this user. > > Jan 7 14:40:50 eagle1 pulseaudio[11232]: main.c: High-priority > scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy. > > Jan 7 14:40:50 eagle1 pulseaudio[11232]: core-util.c: setpriority(): > Permission denied > > Jan 7 14:40:50 eagle1 pulseaudio[11232]: core-util.c: Failed to create > securedirectory: Permission denied > > Jan 7 14:40:50 eagle1 pulseaudio[11232]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot > access autospawn lock. > > > As the users that are using ldap are not listed in the user management, > how do I add these users to the "pulse-rt" group? I have no control > over the ldap groups that have to work across multiple versions of Linux > and other OS's. > > I cannot even run the KDE setup for audio as "System Settings" freezes. ---- I think those 'error' messages in syslog are fairly typical and that you don't actually need users in pulse-rt group at all. is pulse daemon actually running on those machines? as user? If so, can the user open 'Pulse Audio Manager' application (multimedia) and connect? If not, can you have user open a shell and type 'pulseaudio -C' Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines