On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Alecks Gates <aleck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Alecks Gates <aleck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Canek Peláez Valdés writes:
>>>> >
>>>> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>> Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon
>>>> >>> version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants
>>>> >>> pulseaudio,
>>>> >>> which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I
>>>> >>> wouldn't
>>>> >>> mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play
>>>> >>> movies,
>>>> >>> and I get no sound output in mplayer or VLC. And there are weird side
>>>> >>> effects, sometimes playback stops, I have to make it run again by
>>>> >>> skipping back and forward. Sometimes videos play much faster than
>>>> >>> normal.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Is MPlayer using PulseAudio? Maybe if it did, the problem would go
>>>> >> away; I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> ao=pulse
>>>> >> For sure, VLC has an option to use PA by default also.
>>>> >
>>>> > Oh, I think it does, but there was no sound output. Sorry for not
>>>> > mentioning this. I had to switch manually to another sound device, HDA
>>>> > ATI something, I cannot look now because I am not near my desktop PC.
>>>> >
>>>> > If it would just work, then I could make my players use it if they don't
>>>> > already. But what about old applications like Quake3, will they still
>>>> > work?
>>>>
>>>> Of course. I have been using PulseAudio since it became stable in
>>>> Gentoo (circa October 2010); in my experience, making everything sound
>>>> related going through PulseAudio makes everything work. Most modern
>>>> applications support directly PulseAudio; for the old ones that don't,
>>>> you can make all ALSA sound go through PulseAudio like this:
>>>>
>>>> # cat /etc/asound.conf
>>>> pcm.!default {
>>>> type pulse
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> ctl.!default {
>>>> type pulse
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> (If you want it for all users; for your user only, use $HOME/.asoundrc).
>>>
>>> I believe this fix is no longer necessary in the latest version of
>>> alsa-plugins, 1.0.25-r1 (with the pulseaudio USE flag of course).
>>> Definitely don't have this config change on my systems. I recall a blog
>>> post from a couple months ago explaining this fix.
>>
>> I would like a link to that blog post. I haven't read anything about it.
>>
>> Regards.
>> --
>> Canek Peláez Valdés
>> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
>> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>>
>
> Sure, here you go:
>
> http://arunraghavan.net/2012/02/gentoo-pulseaudio-alsa-update/
Damn, I read Gentoo Universe and I totally missed that. Cool, thanks,
I will remove the config file.
Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
