[CentOS] sound oddity on C6

On 2014-12-28, Fred Smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> I just encountered an oddity... it may have been this way for
> millennia :) but somehow I've never noticed it before...
>
> say I'm using X (which is pretty normal these days) and I have VLC
> playing a "radio" station.
>
> I do CTRL-ALT-Fx to switch to a text console THAT HAS NO ONE LOGGED IN
> on it, and voila:
>
> no sound!
>
> as soon as I log in, the audio returns.
>
> what gives here?
>

Are you using pulseaudio? I believe what you describe is the intended
behaviour.

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Liam