Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-10 Thread pete
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:34:45 +0200 Thanasis Georgiou wrote: > I was forced > to dual-boot windows for 1 whole year until I finally made a TV tuner > work in linux. > > -- > Thanasis Georgiou as a matter of interest what was the TV card you could not get working under linux as i have one i would

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
OT: Another reply, just to correct a misunderstanding. On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 15:24 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > There are a lot of ice1712 (envy24) audio cards from the simplest ones > like M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 up to the most professional ones like > the RME Hammerfall which are totally not su

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-10 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:35:07 +0200 schrieb Thanasis Georgiou : > No it's not. Sorry, but it is. > The developers decided they want it a part of their > desktop environment and now it's a dependency. And that's the problem and the reason, why those flame wars regularly pop up if PA is mentioned.

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-10 Thread Thanasis Georgiou
> On Mar 10, 2012 2:34 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > At the beginning I only wanted to help, I didn't start that discussion > about PA for this thread, other people did start it. > > I hope we can stop it, thanx I can see your points and they are perfectly valid. I know how it feels to have hardware

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 10:35 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: > On Mar 10, 2012 2:34 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > Some people, not only deaf people, don't need audio with or without PA, > > it's abstruse making it a dependency. > No it's not. The developers decided they want it a part of their desk

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-10 Thread Thanasis Georgiou
On Mar 10, 2012 2:34 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > Some people, not only deaf people, don't need audio with or without PA, > it's abstruse making it a dependency. No it's not. The developers decided they want it a part of their desktop environment and now it's a dependency. You obviously have proble

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 01:17 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: > No one is claiming that PA is necessary. Just that removing it without > further thought is not going to necessarily make things any easier. Related to this thread: Since PA isn't needed for audio, troubleshooting most of the times will bec

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Loui Chang wrote: >> My guess is that what happens is that pulseaudio blocks the sound >> device, and that's the reason you don't hear the beep when it is >> running (i.e. when sounds play). Disabling PA as Ralf suggests would >> in this case not help at all, and

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 18:37 -0500, Loui Chang wrote: > I'm confused. Why is pulseaudio so necessary? I just use alsa for sound > and have no problems whatsoever. Granted, I don't use one of them fancy > shmancy desktop environments. IMPORTANT! WE NEED TO REPEAT THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN! Those fancy-

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 11:45 +, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM, XeCycle wrote: > > I use pulseaudio on my laptop.  I start it by > > `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a > > standalone wm with lxdm).  When I resume from pm-suspend, the > > system beepe

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 13:15 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:51:01 + > schrieb John K Pate : > > > does every single question about pulseaudio really need to be > > confronted with a holy war against pulseaudio? > > As long as it is such a crap, still doesn't work, doesn't s

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread XeCycle
Tom Gundersen writes: [...] > If I understand correctly your underlying problem can be solved by > blacklisting the pcspkr module, that should make sure the kernel will > no longer beep. Thanks, this worked. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP pu

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread XeCycle
John K Pate writes: [...] > what does lsof /dev/snd/* say when you resme from pm-suspend? Before I suspend: COMMANDPIDUSER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME pulseaudi 1321 xecycle 22u CHR 116,6 0t0 501 /dev/snd/controlC0 pulseaudi 1321 xecycle 27u CHR 116,6 0t0

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread XeCycle
Ralf Mardorf writes: [...] > Pardon for my question. Do you really need the advantages of PA for your > kind of audio usage? Yes. I need some low-latency support, but jack introduced more problems than pulseaudio did. And pulseaudio does provide a reasonable latency for me. Another feature i

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:45:50 + schrieb Tom Gundersen : > Disabling PA as Ralf suggests would > in this case not help at all, and likely just make it worse (I wish > people would stop suggesting to disable PA regardless of what the > problem is, in most cases this is not going to make things eas

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:51:01 + schrieb John K Pate : > does every single question about pulseaudio really need to be > confronted with a holy war against pulseaudio? As long as it is such a crap, still doesn't work, doesn't support every sound and audio card, causes more problems than it solv

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:51 +, John K Pate wrote: > does every single question about pulseaudio really need to be confronted > with a holy war against pulseaudio? No and it's not a holy war for me. I only try to help when people run into issues that might be related to PA, IOW if there's an is

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread John K Pate
> > Pardon for my question. Do you really need the advantages of PA for your > > kind of audio usage? > > For the way I'm using PA it don't has an advantage, but is a PITA only, >^^ audio > > hence I never install it. does every single question about pulseaudio really nee

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM, XeCycle wrote: > I use pulseaudio on my laptop.  I start it by > `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a > standalone wm with lxdm).  When I resume from pm-suspend, the > system beeper issues several beeps; when I open a urxvt, a bash > completio

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 12:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 18:27 +0800, XeCycle wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I use pulseaudio on my laptop. I start it by > > `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a > > standalone wm with lxdm). When I resume from pm-suspend, t

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 18:27 +0800, XeCycle wrote: > Hello, > > I use pulseaudio on my laptop. I start it by > `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a > standalone wm with lxdm). When I resume from pm-suspend, the > system beeper issues several beeps; when I open a urxvt, a bas

[arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread XeCycle
Hello, I use pulseaudio on my laptop. I start it by `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a standalone wm with lxdm). When I resume from pm-suspend, the system beeper issues several beeps; when I open a urxvt, a bash completion failure will issue a beep too. However when any