I have a icecast2/darkice server set up to stream input on the line-in on the sound card. So the stream is playing whatever is coming into the line-in on the sound card. The problem is that if I start darkice before I log in, I can't get any audio. The darkice stream works fine, I get no sound on my computer speakers. So then I can't log in at the console because orca cannot speak. Even if I log in remotely, I can't play sound files. There is no error message, I just get nothing. If I kill darkice, then everything returns to normal. I can start orca at the login screen and log in. Then if I restart darkice, everything continues to work. In otherwords, if I start darkice before accessing the sound device as a regular user, darkice seems to take over the entire device, even output. If I access the sound card before I start darkice, everything is fine. It must be some kind of permissions problem but darned if I can figure out what. I'm running Ubuntu noble/24.04.