On Saturday, August 28th, 2021 at 12:55 PM, hal <vmli...@charter.net> wrote:
> On 8/23/21 19:40, terryc wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:20:27 -0500 > > hal vmli...@charter.net wrote > <snip> > > > Thanks, I finally got this working yesterday. > > Care to share your set up? > Sure, glad to. I made a pastebin for it here since it would become unreadable > posted to the list: https://pastebin.com/XrXtAfPX > My setup (cat /proc/asound/cards): > 0) PCH - external speakers/microphone plugged into back of computer > 1. Nvidia - I suppose HDMI audio route or something > 2. Logitech USB wireless headset with microphone > - I use "xhost +" to allow various users below to run gui on my login. I do > not have the X TCP socket listening so remote access to X is blocked. Could > be another way to do this I dunno. > - my /dev/snd/* devices are chmod 660 for the "audio" group and all users > are members > The problems I have is multiple applications need to access the audio > device concurrently but it does not work (until now): > I have no sound in Firefox so sometimes I need to run Palemoon or Chrome for > any kind of multimedia content which needs sound (ffs Firefox.. an FOSS > embarrassment). Sort of unrelated but it part of the root cause of all this Install 'apulse' which are a sort of pulseaudio compatability libraries. > > 2) > When I run a web browser, I use a launcher script with sudo to run the > browser as "firefox" user. This user cannot play audio if another application > has alsa "locked" > > 3) > Sometime I want to play MP3s on my disk. I run VLC with my login account. I > cannot hear any music if the firefox user has a web browser open. > > 4) > When I launch Steam, a launcher script runs sudo to run Steam as "steamuser". > If another application has audio device open, there is no sound in Steam > games. This may (and I do mean 'may') be your Desktop not releasing the audio devices, google that for your specific desktop to find out how to make it release them when you launch steam. > End result: this mostly works now! Thank you guys/gals! I can share the > Logitech headset between Mumble and Steam (Valheim) applications when both > are run as the "steamuser". Sharing the same device between DIFFERENT users > does NOT work though and maybe not possible I don't know (eg: using Mumble on > headset then trying to play Youtube video as "firefox" user).
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