Hi Igor, Thanks so much for this!
U-DA-MAN! Igor Wojnicki wrote: > Guys I found it!!! Here is the solution! > > 1st the lucid daily build (28.02.10) doesn't perform better than karmic, but > it gave me some clues. > When it logged in (the daily build) as ubuntu I started rythmbox to play. > I added another user aa. > I switched to aa, and... the music stopped playing :) > then I started rhtythmox as aa, it plays nice. > Swithed back to ubuntu and.... bummer, aa music keeps playing.... > So I added another user bb and repeated the procedure but swichinch between > aa and bb. In either case whichever user starts the music first it gets > access to the audio device and it's not willing to give it beack upon > switching. > Why than ubuntu user behaves differently, giving back access to the audio > device? > I checked permissions: System->User Settings->Advanced->User Priviledges. > It turns out that by default ubuntu DOES NOT have 'Use audio devices checked' > hmmm interesting. > So I unchecked this option for both aa and bb users. Guess what It started > working! > > So I went back to karmic to investigate the user privileges there. ANd > guess what, by default a desktop user has 'Use audio device' checked. So > I unchecked it and... sound upon user switching started to work :) > > Bottom line. If you want to have a user, which currently uses the > display, to have access to the sound device with all the benefits from > sound muting upon user switch, you need to uncheck 'Use audio devices' > privileges for this user. As a matter of fact I unchecked it for all my > users. > > These privileges are very confusing then. > I guess their proper interpretation is that if: > - checked: the user locks the audio device as long as he wants, no sound > switching upon user switching, > - unchecked: the user which currently uses the display has access to the > audio device, sound switching takes place upon user switching. > > Ant the last word. I think it is very sad what happens here. None of the > developers/packagers could help the community with this problem. But the > solution was there! It seems that this is a kind of undocumented feature > nobody knows about. Isn't there something wrong with software/package > care at ubuntu then? > > Anyway, have fun with your audio now! > -- [Karmic]&[Lucid] Only one user has sound; no hw shows in Sound Preferences https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433654 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
