Make explicit that being in the audio group is required for pipewire-pulse. #587
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That's interesting, I wonder if it needs |
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oh? weird. I'll double check, but I don't have |
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I can confirm that if I remove myself from the |
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Ok, so I think we should document the requirement with the note that having elogind makes it unnecessary. |
But isn't this true also for e.g. |
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Yup, that's very much the case. I recently tried out a session without elogind, and pipewire didn't have devices until I added myself to audio group. I think this is noted in the page about groups, a more specific call out here might be worth it. |
elogind will use posix attributes to give logged in users access to devices tagged as uaccess (such as audio and joystick input devices). Without it, it's necessary to be in the audio group to access them. Closes void-linux#587
elogind will use posix attributes to give logged in users access to devices tagged as uaccess (such as audio and joystick input devices). Without it, it's necessary to be in the audio group to access them. Closes #587
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In addition to the
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, I've found that with a clean base install of voidlinux, if I follow the handbook to add audio support by choosing the pipewire-puse route, I need to also add my user to theaudiogroup, otherwise,pactl infowould show pipewire is being used and everything appears to be correct, but just no sound.