Systemd Is Now One Year Old; Why You Should Use It

[V!NCENT]

The Sound Blaster was an AdLib clone and the PCI-range where a rebranded E-mu line of cards. Not realy original, is it?

[locovaca]

No I'm not. As much as DOS wasn't initialy made but bought by Microsoft, Creative didn't the create the Soundblaster.

Unless you think that comming up with a name equals creating a product...

Then who created it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster

Philips? At any rate, we're talking 25 year old ISA technology here.

[V!NCENT]

He may be confused with the E-mu and Ensoniq acquisitions.

No I'm not. As much as DOS wasn't initialy made but bought by Microsoft, Creative didn't the create the Soundblaster.

Unless you think that comming up with a name equals creating a product...

[mdias]

Been using systemd for the past few days, and it's working wonders!

I also use pulseaudio which solved all the problems I used to have* with a pure ALSA solution, I also use JACK from time to time (I use "pasuspender -- jackd" to make my life easier with this) with a DIY MIDI device, and I'm currently an happy user.

* problems included different channel mappings with different apps, audio device busy errors, no easy way to switch between 2.0 and 5.1 output...

[Chewi]

i have a xfi hd from auz3n , with fedora 14 it plays only stereo despite i use Digital Output / S/PDIF .
do you think i would get 5.1 if i remove pulse audio ?

what kind of command line i should use ?

When this happens, what are you using to produce the sound? Any particular player? What is the media, a DVD?

[jcgeny]

With Pulse Audio I have experience many various issues with various AzeilaHD, Cmedia 8788, Cmedia 8738's, Soundblaster Audigy 2zs, Soundblaster X-Fi Titaniums, M-Audio Revo (ICE 1724) and Chaintech AV-710's. In every single one of those cases the resolution to fixing the audio issues were to remove pulse audio and then they worked as expected.

i have a xfi hd from auz3n , with fedora 14 it plays only stereo despite i use Digital Output / S/PDIF .
do you think i would get 5.1 if i remove pulse audio ?

what kind of command line i should use ?

[Chewi]

LOL, Creative didn't bought Sound Blaster, they created it!

He may be confused with the E-mu and Ensoniq acquisitions.

[zoomblab]

Everybody know that soundblasters are a source of problems after Creative bought it.

LOL, Creative didn't bought Sound Blaster, they created it!

[V!NCENT]

@deanjo,
Everybody know that soundblasters are a source of problems after Creative bought it. Google Slashdot for it and see the outcries. It has caused me massive headaches on both Windows and Linux. I then replaced them with a Cmedia soundcard which since WinXP service pack 2 has caused me nothing but grief. It has worked on Linux but then it died. A friend of mine had the same card and wanted to thwor it away so I tried that one. Also pain in the ass.

For the other cards I don't know. Cards that did worked have been Intel HD audio, RaLink (or something: those blue Windows driver icons) and countles onboard soundcards from the Pentium 2 days all the way to now.

Also, I have to wonder why you would need an X-Fi, other than for Windows gaming or Windows studio appliences for recording audio. 128kHz is totaly BS for audio playback. If you want analog audio LP experience buy a Coolermaster light bulb transistor to round of the aliasing edges for about $20 or something. Make sure to also not boost your volume to the max and buy analog speakers with three seperat speakers in the box that have circuitry to seperate mid, high and low frequencies and your sound is golden

[crazycheese]

I didn't say it wasn't still maintained, I fixed a couple of bugs myself the other day, but it seems to have lost momentum since Roy left. Having said that, I still think it's fairly feature-complete, it's just lacking some of the modern extras that systemd has like a D-Bus interface, path-based activation (inotify) and PolicyKit integration.

+ondemand daemon loading/unloading, +parallelized start/stop, +speed aware dependency resolve.