Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [alsa-devel] [RFC] disabling ALSA period interrupts

2010-05-07 Thread pl bossart
> This patch looks very interesting and desirable. This is something have > long been waiting for. > > I wonder how this actually relates to > snd_pcm_sw_params_set_period_event() though. snd_pcm_sw_params_set_period_event() defines whether or not you will have poll wakeups when a period elapses.

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] [alsa] add rewind-safeguard parameter

2010-05-07 Thread pl bossart
> Hmm, I had to think about this a bit, but I do agree now tha > In the long run, this should probably be done by ALSA (or at least tuned > to some value reported by ALSA), but the patch makes a lot of sense to > me, and certainly more sense that the watermark value that we currently > stay away fr

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 19.04.10 19:23, Jan Braun (janbr...@gmx.de) wrote: 1;2400;0c> Lennart Poettering schrob: > > > ...and you're explicitly disallowing cross-user shm transfer. :( > > > I guess I'll have to figure out the security implications of messing > > > with that. > > > > Well, the story goes like thi

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] [alsa] add rewind-safeguard parameter

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 29.04.10 11:14, pl bossart (bossart.nos...@gmail.com) wrote: > This is a patch to fix rewind issues. It has the potential to break > audio in Linux, so I would really appreciate it if others could give > it a try and test on their systems. The new rewind_safeguard should be > tuned to the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Fix crash on jack server shutdown

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 03.05.10 19:15, David Henningsson (launchpad@epost.diwic.se) wrote: > I'll just resend my patch after having discussed it on LAC with Lennart. > Compared to the previous patch this patch also adds a comment Lennart > wanted, and also does the same change for jack sources. Thanks! Appl

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] permanent microphone boost

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 06.05.10 09:24, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > > 'Twas brillig, and Piscium at 05/05/10 19:00 did gyre and gimble: > > I am completely ignorant about audio stacks, so I don't know if mic > > boost belongs in Alsa or PA. However as far as I know the only audio > > GUI that c

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [alsa-devel] [RFC] disabling ALSA period interrupts

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 29.04.10 17:38, pl bossart (bossart.nos...@gmail.com) wrote: > Howdy, > When PulseAudio is used and all PCM is routed through PulseAudio > (Fedora, Meego, etc), the notion of ALSA periods isn't very useful. > PulseAudio uses a timer to refill buffers and the period interrupts > are not use

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Anyone seen this problem: Cards show up but their sinks/sources do not.

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 03.05.10 09:03, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > Hi, > > I come across this occasionally (usually when moving from home to my > office where I have a USB speaker via a USB Hub. > > The card itself is shown fine and lets me choose the profiles etc., but > it refuses to actual

[pulseaudio-discuss] [ANNOUNCE] RealtimeKit 0.7

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
Heya! http://0pointer.de/public/rtkit-0.7.tar.gz David Henningsson (1): rtkit: Add client-side testing of properties Jirka Klimes (1): Fix spelling of 'Successfully' Lennart Poettering (1): build-sys: prepare 0.7 release Luke Yelavich (1): Add rtkitctl manpage Maarten

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] rtkit: add pid as argument

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 05.05.10 01:10, Maarten Lankhorst (m.b.lankho...@gmail.com) wrote: > >Patch looks goot to me. But could you fix one thing: I think > >MakeThreadRealtimeWithPID() (or something like tht) would be a better > >name than MakeThreadRealtime2(). After examples like wait(), wait3() and > >wait4()

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] 24 bit sound

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 07.05.10 00:22, David Björkevik (da...@bjorkevik.se) wrote: > Dear list, > > I'm in the process of buying a new soundcard. For a little more money I > can get a 24-bit one, which I figure would be nice for things like > software mixing. > > However, I can't find anything on how PulseAudi

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] 24 bit sound

2010-05-07 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 10:01 +0200, David Björkevik wrote: > * If I buy a 96kHz / 24 bit card, use PulseAudio, and play such a > .wav-file through mplayer, is that the rate and depth of audio that will > be sent to the sound card? Yes, assuming that the sink is configured to run at 96 kHz / 24 bi

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Fixing git branches

2010-05-07 Thread pl bossart
> The rules documented in http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/GitBranches seem > sensible to me, but the documentation doesn't match reality: according > to the wiki page, there should be a branch named "0.9.21-stable", but > there isn't, and all commits in stable-queue should also be in master, > but they

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] 24 bit sound

2010-05-07 Thread David Björkevik
On 2010-05-07 04:38, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 00:22 +0200, David Björkevik wrote: >> I'm in the process of buying a new soundcard. For a little more money I >> can get a 24-bit one, which I figure would be nice for things like >> software mixing. > > What's your use case? You d