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wassup

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Registered: 2010-03-16

Posts: 12

Pulseaudio & console.

Hello everyone. Just wondering... I often use console apart from my X11 session. I also use pulseaudio as my sound daemon. The problem is that when I start playing music in one console (let it be mplayer/mpc/whatever) and I switch to another one, the sound stops until I get back to the tty in which the player is run. The problem does not occur if I am logged on the console I switch to as the same user by which the player is started (e.g. console 1 - player working, console 2 - user logged in, the sound is available, console 3 - no user logged in, the sound stops as soon as that console becomes active). The sound also stops when I am logged onto a remote server via ssh on the console I switch to. Is it the way pulseaudio should behave or something is wrong with my configuration?

Thank you in advance for any answers.

Regards,
wassup

maxicombina

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Registered: 2010-11-14

Posts: 1

Re: Pulseaudio & console.

I also see this behavior, and I don't like it.
Don't know how to fix it

Stebalien

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Registered: 2010-04-27

Posts: 1,239

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Re: Pulseaudio & console.

This is a feature. Pulseaudio uses consolekit to determine the user currently at the computer (for fast user switching etc.). This is just a wild guess but adding yourself to the audio group may help (but probably won't).

Last edited by Stebalien (2011-07-06 18:33:57)

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