Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

On Jul 4, 2013, at 10:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Sorry to be a nuisance but I can't think of where else to ask. > > On the website I run I have a link to our Twitter profile (or whatever it's > called). This is the link: > >https://twitter.com/TideswellMVC > > If I examine the page usin

[gentoo-user] conky crashes with JSON output.

Hello, everyone. I'm experiencing some problems with conky that seems to be Gentoo-specific. All of my friends running other distributions are able to run my configuration file just fine. Here's the output from conky: 7f2af50f5000-7f2af52f4000 ---p 0012 08:02 1469347 /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled

the console, but to start gnome when I need it. > > >> > > >> Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: > > >> you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's > > >> DBus activated. > > >> > > >> > > >> > I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for > > >> > the root user who can play sounds. > > >> > > >> I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. > > > > > > But will that workif I have spawn=no in my /etc/pulse/client.conf which > > > I have to have for regular apps to work from theconsole? Or is there > > > some other way to make this happen? > > > > I don't understand the question. If you don't run PA by yourself, then > > it will be started only when using GNOME. And if you are using GNOME, > > you can use the nice sound settings dialog to get your sound. > > > > If you don't start GNOME, then PA will not be started. If you don't > > have sound in your console even without PA running, then is for some > > issue completely unrelated to PA. > > > > PA should not be started if you only log in through the console. > > Unless you are still running it system-wide, which is basically > > unsupported. > > OK, we will see what happens, so I have set spawn=no which should work > to prevent pa except in gnome, so hopefully that should work. > > Thanks for clarifying this for me. > > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici > cov...@ccs.covici.com > I had the same issue here when installing pulseaudio. I don't use GNOME, so that does take part of the equation away. The problem was solved by changing permissions to /dev/snd and it's containing files. After chmodding /dev/snd/* to 666, I was able to play sounds as a normal user. In the Gentoo guide, it mentions this, and it also mentions taking your user out of the audio group if you're currently in it. Please see http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio#Root_can_play_sound.2C_other_users_cannot for more detailed information. Very Respectfully, Kevin Thompson