-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Am Sa den 19. Mai 2018 um 11:21 schrieb Mick: > On Saturday, 19 May 2018 01:04:14 BST Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > I mentioned already that I am a user of OSS4. I found [0] but none of > > the information over there works anymore. Do you know some more recent > > source? > I don't know of any more up to date link to recommend, because I've not used > oss, but is there something wrong with using alsa?
Well, the sound quality is very bad with alsa with even cracks when moving mouse or having network traffic. Even more I have a very bad experience with kernel panics when using alsa. On the other hand I always had pretty good sound with oss4 and no stability problems. > > Currently I am trying to compile it from source directly but there is a > > small problem left with kernel 4.16. > Have you had a look at various overlays - not sure which ebuild is the best > to > use for oss. I just started to look into overlays. Currently I use none. One of my main problems here is to see what the overlay is for. Currently I use the 17.0/hardened profile only. > > Another problem with sound is bluetooth. On one box I usually use a > > bluetooth headset. Unfortunately the only way that seems to work on > > linux is to use puleaudio. Sadly it is not starting under Gentoo. > > > > Is there anyone who has successful use pulseaudio with bluetooth on > > Gentoo? > > Most desktop environments pull in the pulseaudio ebuild these days and pa > starts up as needed by udev/ConsoleKit when using openrc, or just > udev/systemd > when using systemd. I have no systemd, no consolekit and no "desktopenvironment". I use fvwm and lived well with using pulseaudio autostart when using an application that made use of it (cmus). In fact, the pain with systemd on debian brought me to Gentoo. I have a history of over 20 years with debian but the quality is speeding up to decay since the switch to systemd was made. > Have a look here for set up details: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio Thanks, will have a look. > On some PCs I have found bluetooth audio a pain to configure. I was advised > to install net-wireless/blueman, which made it less painful to get bluetooth > audio source/sink working in my use case. Is that a replacement to pulseaudio? If yes, that would be definitively a replacement. > However, in many cases bluetoothctl is all you need to get the devices to > pair > and get pulseaudio to pick up the bluetooth device as an audio sink. That was my experience on debian before too. > pactl list sinks Well, as it does not start at all, that does not work too. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.ch> Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Charset: ISO-8859-1 iQGzBAEBCgAdFiEEMWF28vh4/UMJJLQEpnwKsYAZ9qwFAlsAAOUACgkQpnwKsYAZ 9qzcDQv+PCgL33//5oxRVykhV1T5OBi4W3vjgG4BDEiN0tmU9x4RIktWtT6vhxfA 0ZxOTiJYiIaox2PB9ZSouUZY2segr4aHOFBKGLCpVgUOK5/2I1+X4jLQ+fA4OeB7 qguT8FITO0aL6j1xzTs95jEC0P+alsk+UjJeAxHbRDhsGPjSB9n44eZ47c0UMwdT oBQnBUR3eoC/R1nRXnLenu/EIjKs4lRFLBZeouEH7VQBjnxxxBdRlpxNo1Z1kpXU Hg7OBfGUDjPdbgJJk4xPengHco8VnaYwvlpNOaW+d2D9VtpvCsDCFL0TjPij/lv9 vZB4bTEhBWnk6GPgOkgBYs9snuZzeP1pLQENcASx1v6wS7WHgcI6EX5ICCVuHA2d enniCngezILI51ArQ1oaxNStPhLtHqxnvajxRUDMdMpoE6yodnKeD+qnfGFBTPWe /NhKUEPLiD/ZEghp4Z4x2R1fUN0nAV0sscWBQWBdH50bNZt8k+HKrr1jlTCjdSgx 40izipI0 =xtwL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
