[arch-general] No user sound - only root has access alsamixer on virtualbox?

[Armin K.]

On 02/02/2014 05:23 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/01/2014 08:54 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>> Seems like you installed pulseaudio but you aren't running it.
>> pulseaudio usually runs as normal user and not as root user - that's why
>> root uses "raw alsa", and normal user uses "alsa through pulseaudio".
> 
> Hmm.. You are correct. But installing pulseaudio-alsa which provides
> /etc/asound.conf:
> 
> # Use PulseAudio by default
> pcm.!default {
>   type pulse
>   fallback "sysdefault"
>   hint {
>     show on
>     description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
>   }
> }
> 
> ctl.!default {
>   type pulse
>   fallback "sysdefault"
> }
> 
> Has always taken care of this automatically before. However, this is the first
> build of Trinity on Arch that does not rely on hal, so there may be more
> required to get sound going for normal users. I have started pulseaudio, but as
> of yet, I cannot get sound configured and working. Sound has always been tricky
> when it is not working. Here, apparently root works just fine using "raw alsa",
> but then what to do for the users. I'll keep picking around, if you have any
> other suggestions, please let me know. Thanks.
> 

Well, pulseaudio-alsa is installed by default with pulseaudio iirc, so
you'll always get that. pulseaudio daemon is started by a startup file
in /etc/xdg/autostart, but I believe it can be dbus activated when
something requests it - yet you still need to have a valid dbus session
in either cases - be it dbus-launch-ed one or (not really sure 'bout
this one) the one started with systemd user session.

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