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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #433654
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 433654

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Igor Wojnicki (wojnicki) wrote : Re: [Karmic] Only one user has sound; no hw shows in Sound Preferences

While trying to find a solution for this issue I stumbled upon this, quote:

"A bit of functionality is (temporarily) lost however: in the udev
world there is no replacement for HAL's session switching/ACL
management yet. The new code in PA however is written in a way that
should just work when we add this to udev later on. However the
lacking ACL handling makes things very racy right now and you might
need to add yourself to "audio" group, as a temporary workaround. We
mostly figured out how session switching/ACL management should be
working, it's just a matter that Jon and Kay need to implement that."

I found it at: https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-June/004103.html

It's a bit old (June 2009), and I'm not sure if this still applies to the udev release in Karmic. But if it does than not much can be done now. It would just point out that dropping HAL was premature then.

I would kindly urge the package maintainer to comment on this issue, please. And state whether there is anything that can be done to solve this annoyance