Updated instructions.txt

instructions.txt

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ $ sudo gcc pause.c -o /usr/local/bin/pause
 To test that it succeeded, type pause and hit Enter. It should "pause" the terminal you were running. To stop, do Ctrl-C as
 that will send a kill signal to the process.
 
+If you want pulseaudio running as a system service being restricted to your user permissions:
 You need to add your user name (the output of the whoami command) to the USER= variable in sv/pulseaudio-daemon/conf.
-Read this commit for more info: "git show 4162a4c17c919c37e161b75136dc78f7fb1571a7"
 $ nano sv/pulseaudio-daemon/conf
 
 Change this line from this
@@ -34,6 +34,24 @@ USER="Your user name here"
 
 then save.
 
+If you want pulseaudio as a user service instead of a system service running as your user, then do this instead:
+Follow these instructions http://smarden.org/runit/faq.html#userservices
+If you aren't part of the audio group, then change this(if your name is floyd)
+
+exec chpst -u floyd runsvdir /home/floyd/service
+
+to
+
+exec chpst -u floyd:audio runsvdir /home/floyd/service
+
+and remove . ./conf from the run script, since the necessary variables are inherited.
+
+so that the pulseaudio-daemon can access your audio devices.
+Move the pulseaudio-daemon to your user runsvdir:
+$ mv sv/pulseaudio-daemon ~/service
+and you can remove the conf file:
+$ rm ~/service/pulseaudio-daemon/conf
+
 Next, you need to configure the display-manager service. Mine points to lightdm but if you use a different display manager,
 you need to make the equivalent runit service for it and make the display-manager service point to that instead(and
 optionally enable the service that your display-manager service points to as well, so you can do "sv status display-manager"