On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 04:01:53PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > So I'm not convinced we should enable aucat unconditionally. Wouldn't > > > it make some sense to enable aucat on systems that run X? > > > > Hmmm, why not? > > > > I'm not against turning audio off in certain situations (servers, > > whatever). IMO the important point is aucat to be always running > > when audio is expected to work, ie assume that it's a part of the > > audio subsystem, so we can rely on it in ports and driver code. > > Except at install time you don't know that. You only know it on > some machines. It is MD. > > if [[ -n $MDXAPERTURE ]]; then > ask_yn "Do you expect to run the X Window System?" $def > ... > > And you can't know it at run time. > > And you can't do it based on whether the X sets are installed either, > since we default to that. >
what privileges does aucat need ? Could it be started in the default Xsession/Xinitrc (perhaps with the help of fbtab(4)) ? -- Matthieu Herrb
