On 10/19/2010 09:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, do you know about this page? >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio I tried Pulseaudio in my >> Gentoo once by using that guide. > thanks. I'm pretty sure I've followed that page before, but hey - it was > a long time ago. I adjusted my setup according to what it says *now* - > we'll see what comes out of it. I followed links a bit deeper and also > checked my setup against > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789181-highlight-pulseaudio.html > adjusting a thing or two (like using hal module vs udev, however > something tells me I'll be switching back pretty soon...). > > I'll try it out for a while and post back the results.
well my attempts are unsuccessful so far. Applying "every trick in a book" from the above links I've got nowhere. I can reliably reproduce the problem: start amarok, try to start playing movie with, say mplayer, skip through couple of frames - and voila! sound is gone. I've tried both Xine and GStreamer backends so far with the same outcome. So what I've done on top of my setup is: installed alsa-plugins, changed pulseaudio configs as per above forum post (checking along the way that my setup matches). Interesting "touch" on this entire ordeal I see "Internal Audio Analog stereo" after startup, but if I kill pulseaudio process with: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --kill my Multimedia settings will display "PulseAudio server". Problems remain the same though. It could be the Mplayer's fault - I switched it over from "ao=alsa" to "ao=pulse" and same happens. Right now I've got to the point where one app may lock the device while other seems to be sending output to /dev/null and keeps sending it after app that locked device quits (looks like this is the result of using GStreamer over Xine backend).
