Hi everybody, not trying to stir up a flamewar about pulseaudio viability etc. I want to make my setup work *with* the pulseaudio, but I feel like I'm missing something. So I'd rather avoid comments "don't use it then" if at all possible.
What I have: Gentoo + KDE-4.4.5 + pulseaudio-0.9.21.1 How I use it: In KDE I've got Xine backend setup for playback (if I use gstreamer I get higher frequency of problems popping up, see below). Problems I see: Whenever any app tries to use KDE sound notification system I have a good chance of sound becoming garbled in Amarok (while listening to the music), heck even non-KDE apps like Skype would work fine until something else decides to use sound device (like gnash/lighspark, etc.). Chances of getting garbled sound are 50/50 - it's never a guarantee: sometimes it works - sometimes it "crashes". To get sound back I have to restart app (Skype, Firefox, Amarok, etc.). How I configured it: $ cat /etc/asound.conf # as per http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications # we're using pulseaudio for everything now... # pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } $ cat ~/.asoundrc pcm.hda-intel { type hw card 0 } ctl.hda-intel { type hw card 0 } I've been living with above problems for a while now not having much time to investigate and writing it off as immaturity of stack, but it was out for quite a while and obviously people use it with better rate of success (judging by online resources). My HW looks like this: $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xfe020000 irq 20 2 [U0x46d0x809 ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x809 USB Device 0x46d:0x809 at usb-0000:00:02.1-2, high speed (second device is a Logitec's USB WebCam). I realize it may be a question more geared toward pulseaudio community but I'd rather find out whether there's something Gentoo-specific I'm missing first.
