7 Jan
2005
7 Jan
'05
9:27 a.m.
How could you imagine a "Multi user" audio
layer integrated
into the OS ? audio is not like any other server tasks, you
usually have to access the hardware directly by plug in
your mic, your midi gear etc... and you usually have to be
near the computer in order to listen to the music you are
playing... etc so what is really the need to give Linux an
audio Multiuser OS ? Imagine 2 or more users using the same
computer to make music, listen to their video etc and using
the ability from Linux to mix all the stuff, it would be a
genious inaudible "cacophony" at the sound card output :)
Hehe. I also had these thoughts, but I'd like to give two
examples:
* First one: Currently, the audio devices get ownership of the
first user logged in via PAM or a simillar mechanism.
Unfortunately, my girl friend wants to surf the internet. So
I open a second X session. Now she will not get sound because
the user of the first session uses the audio device.
Furthermore, I formyself use a second user to make the videos
(to have a clean desktop and to set everything to english).
So it can happen that I have three X sessions open, and I'd
really like to see that all three users can have sound.
* Second one: This case is somehow theoretic, but we have also
users on our machines which are not neccessaryly physical
users. In the future may be a shell script running as a
system user wants to inform me via audio that someone tries
to log in from an unknown host, maybe rendering a text
through embrola or playing a prepared audio file.
So, wouldn't something as a jackd running in root mode and
accepting audio from any user who is in the jack group be a
really desireable thing?
Hope I'm wrong and I don't understand the mean
of this
thread :)
No, you did understand it and thanks for your thouhts :) .
Best regards
ce