On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:53:34PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:20 AM, CamaleĆ³n <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:57:58 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > > (...) > > > >> 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...) > > > > Ask yourself if you really need PA in your system. > > I'm just as happy using straight alsa and building a dummy package. > However, two things that come to mind are a) what happens when/if pa > becomes the standard and b) are there any interesting things I can do > with it (e.g. multiplexing/balancing sound). If I can do b) without > PA, so much the better. I'm thinking worst case, jack, but that didn't > have a lot of docs, last time I checked. > I've found jack to be not too bad. It may take a while to set all your applications to use it, but after that it works well.
Regarding dummy packages, couldn't you also just install pulseaudio but blacklist modules or remove a startup script? /etc/default/pulseaudio seems to indicate some ways to prevent it from loading (in Gnome at least -- in other window managers I don't think it loads automatically anyway). -Rob -- 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/20120720122919.gb9...@aurora.owens.net