On Saturday, August 28th, 2021 at 12:55 PM, hal wrote:
> On 8/23/21 19:40, terryc wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:20:27 -0500
> > hal vmli...@charter.net wrote
>
> > > 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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