On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 10:10:10PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:58:16PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > | Hi Alexandre, > | > | Alexandre Ratchov wrote on Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:29:26PM +0200: > | > | > On the one hand, we expect audio to work by default. On the other hand > | > format conversions, channel mapping, resampling and alike belong to > | > the audio sub-system; until 2009, this used to be the audio(4) driver > | > itself. But later, instead of extending the audio(4) driver, we put > | > new audio code in aucat(1), which amongs others, has the advantage of > | > running as unprivileged user rather than in supervisor mode. From this > | > standpoint, there should be an instance of aucat(1) running by default > | > for each instance of audio(4), ie for each sound card; [...] > | > | Really? > | > | Here is the list of daemons currently enabled by default: > | > | syslogd pflogd sshd sendmail inetd cron > | > | These are useful on almost any system, no matter whether > | server or desktop. > > Why is syslogd useful on my laptop if I never look at those logs ? Or > pflogd ? Even sshd, I ssh *from* my laptop, not to it. Same goes for > inetd, what's the use on my laptop ? Or cron ? At the time default > jobs are scheduled to run, my laptop is suspended. Granted, that may > not be the most common use case (and also granted: I do sometimes use > some of these on my laptop). But I like the idea of a working default > setup that also includes working audio. > > It would be nice if aucat didn't start when there was no sound > hardware. And it doesn't: >
It's necessary to keep it running because if a uaudio device is plugged, it should work. > [weerd@despair] $ sudo aucat -l -fsun:0 > aucat: sun:0: can't open device > sun:0: failed to open audio device > > So your server in the datacenter won't be running aucat afterall. > sorry, my diff is wrong.. I forgot the '-aoff' in the diff, but -aoff will become the default soon (this is to keep the device closed when not used). -- Alexandre Index: rc.conf =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/rc.conf,v retrieving revision 1.160 diff -u -p -r1.160 rc.conf --- rc.conf 24 Jul 2011 15:33:41 -0000 1.160 +++ rc.conf 6 Oct 2011 20:30:52 -0000 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ ifstated_flags=NO # for normal use: "" relayd_flags=NO # for normal use: "" snmpd_flags=NO # for normal use: "" smtpd_flags=NO # for normal use: "" -aucat_flags=NO # for normal use: "" +aucat_flags="-aoff -fsun:0" # use another device, e.g. "-fsun:1" ldapd_flags=NO # for normal use: "" inetd_flags="" # for normal use: "" rwhod_flags=NO # for normal use: ""
