sound doesn't work until I login

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 08:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:06:41 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> > My system just starts up and starts playing music off a USB stick,
> > forever. That's it.
> Ok, so IIUC when using pulseaudio, you can't kill it after startup
> and restart it as user, because playing music should start when
> booting and continue when starting a session.

Who said anything about a session? I don't plan to log into this thing.

> assuming you want to listen to the music after startup and get sound
> from e.g. a browser at the same time the music is playing

No browsers. No GUI. No screen, no keyboard, no mouse. No users, no
logins, no sessions. Just music.

> However, wouldn't it be the easiest way to wait until startup
> finished and start playing music after the user session started?

Listen carefully: There is no user session :-)

>  Does booting take that long, that playing music already during
> startup isn't just a ridiculous gimmick?

It doesn't have to play music during startup; it just starts playing
music as soon as it's booted, and keeps playing music.

Regards, K.

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