I need an opinion here. I had a 5 year old, lovingly upgraded workstation with 32-bit sid up until I upgraded my hardware. I did a nuke and pave and reinstalled amd64 sid.
Sometime along the line, pulseaudio was installed, which broke sound on the old setup. Through my reading, it appeared that pulse behaved better when installed with a clean install. (the old one was about 5 years old.) So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a really hard time with it. I am running sid with kde 4.x, and, to give one example (there are several I have noticed), when playing music with Amarok, every time a screen issue happens (e.g. when the screen saver kicks in, or when the track changes and Amarok kicks up a dialog with the name/artist of the next track, the sound goes wonky and sounds like it is underwater. Sometimes this will clear up on its own after a few minutes, but other times it doesn't or I want it fixed immediately...Then I can slide the master volume down and back up in kmix (sometimes it takes twice). Very frustrating. Now, I did a little research a couple of weeks ago, and found on the Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/) that they recommend installing several extra pulse-related packages. Is it worth it? Will it fix my problems? Or is it not worth the effort and should I just nuke pulse from orbit? (It's the only way to be sure...) Opinions and experiences requested and welcome. Thanks, --b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKmZw+Y=8+3x0bw9m7mqleghdddvgpncvkbtlehmcj6jyxr...@mail.gmail.com