Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Optimize PA for mobile usage

2011-10-10 Thread Andreas Bauer
In Reply to: Mark Brown > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:21:44PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > I am not sure. 4 W power consumption of a sound chip sounds quite a lot > > to me. Additionally as written above please try a newer version. > > That's many orders of magnitude more than is sane unless

[pulseaudio-discuss] Re: Optimize PA for mobile usage

2011-10-08 Thread Andreas Bauer
In Reply to: Arun Raghavan > > This is already setup and works fine indeed for everything but this one > application. It will not allow free text entry of an ALSA device, but will > instead present only devices listed in /proc/asound/pcm ("real" hardware > devices). > > > > I don't care how d

[pulseaudio-discuss] Re: Optimize PA for mobile usage

2011-10-07 Thread Andreas Bauer
In Reply to: Pierre-Louis Bossart > > So it is not about CPU consumption, pulseaudio is economical with CPU as is. > > Have you loaded the module module-suspend-on-idle? If nothing is playing > (and your volume UI isn't showing), the output device should be burn any > power. Thanks also. This m

[pulseaudio-discuss] RE: Optimize PA for mobile usage

2011-10-07 Thread Andreas Bauer
In Reply to: Baek Chang > "module-suspend-on-idle" should suspend the alsa devices when no clients are > idle or not connected for 5 seconds by default. > try loading that module and see if it actually closes the handle to the alsa > devices. Thanks a lot. It can be that easy. That did the trick

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio-discuss Digest, Vol 6, Issue 19

2011-10-07 Thread Andreas Bauer
In Reply to: Paul Menzel > > Running Debian Squeeze (stable) with Kernel 3.0.1 > > Is the PA version 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 [1]? I guess the ALSA version is > quite old then too. PA 1.0 was released recently. Yes, correct. I should have provided that information. ALSA is 1.0.23+dfsg-2 > Could you so

[pulseaudio-discuss] How to trick legacy ALSA applications into using pulseaudio?

2011-10-07 Thread Andreas Bauer
I have one (closed-source) application (Zoiper) which can only access ALSA (because it will not allow me to input non-hardware ALSA device names like pcm.pulse). Is there some hack/workaround to get such applications to talk to pulseaudio? Andreas __

[pulseaudio-discuss] Optimize PA for mobile usage

2011-10-07 Thread Andreas Bauer
Hello everyone, First a big thank you for a quality piece of software. I am a first time user and am amazed at the flexiblity that PA provides. I installed PA because I wanted to have better integration of my Bluetooth headset and works perfectly. Running Debian Squeeze (stable) with Kernel 3.0