PulseAudio hasn't died yet? Damn.
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Why is it that people gripe and complain every time something functional comes around? I'm also talking about DBus and HAL. PulseAudio is a brilliant system that needs maturing. It complements ALSA.
What I can't stand, though, is them saying that PulseAudio should run per-user. That seems retarded.
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Originally posted by ssam View Posti'd love to see some real stats on this. it works fine all all my machines. i am sure it works well for the people releasing distros (nobody likes to release code they no is broken).
maybe it does work for 99% of machines. if so then for each million linux users they would be 10,000 grumpy ones complaining.
Tried OpenSUSE on the laptop (HDT HD codec: no audio
Tried OpenSUSE on the desktop (SBLive 1024): no audio
Tried Fedora 10 and 11 on the laptop: audio working bad (jittering, cracking and popping), then applications get locked. Not to mention the high cpu usage and freezing all the applications that try to use pure ALSA.
As I said previously, I removed the executable (because you can't uninstall: it will take away three thousands other packages...) and then everything automagically started to work as expected. I can't say I had a good experience with pulseaudio.
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Originally posted by enteon View PostOk, thank you. So what can I do about it except changing the sound chip? Because in fact I have an Audigy 2 ZS (emu10k1 or something).
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Originally posted by AHSauge View PostWhat exact problems are you running into? I'm daily using one machine with an Audigy 2 ZS, and I can't really say I'm experiencing any problems with it and PulseAudio. Haven't done anything to make it work either. In fact it works out of the box in at least Fedora.
That's my main card as well. Only problem I had was PA defaulting to 2ch sound, but that is easily resolved by editing PA's daemon.conf file.
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Originally posted by misiu_mp View PostWhat distro are you using? Did you have to remove pulse? Was it a hassle?
Originally posted by BlackStar View PostI really doubt you are using ALSA directly. More likely, you are using an obsolete sound daemon like ESD, which provides about 1/10 the functionality of Pulse and has worse quality to boot.
BTW even in old KDE 3.5 I disabled obsolete arts to free up some memory and just used alsa directly with apps.Last edited by val-gaav; 11 November 2009, 06:11 PM.
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