Re: progress of sound update -- REVISED

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Klein
2009/8/29 Susan Cragin : >>>Why do you need to install esound? > >>ALSA has shipped with "dmix" by default since shortly after 1.0 was >>released, though I think Ubuntu's pulse config can screw with it even >>after pulseaudio is removed. > > I'd forgotten about dmix, it's been so long. Good old dmi

Re: progress of sound update -- REVISED

2009-08-28 Thread Susan Cragin
>>Why do you need to install esound? >ALSA has shipped with "dmix" by default since shortly after 1.0 was >released, though I think Ubuntu's pulse config can screw with it even >after pulseaudio is removed. I'd forgotten about dmix, it's been so long. Good old dmix and dsnoop (which is what I ne

Re: progress of sound update -- REVISED

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Klein
2009/8/28 Susan Cragin : >> Why do you need to install esound? > > I don't know. I've taken it for granted that some kind of mixer is needed. > Perhaps because I don't use the default sound card, the on-board card. Maybe > I don't need esound at all. Or maybe if I could permanently make my Creati

Re: progress of sound update -- REVISED

2009-08-28 Thread Susan Cragin
Yesterday's Ubuntu updates produced a rash of pulseaudio changes, and suddenly alsa works with wine, without stumbling. Today's secret to making it work: In System/Preferences/Startup applications, uncheck pulseaudio sudo apt-get install esound Why do you need to install esound? I don't

Re: progress of sound update -- REVISED

2009-08-28 Thread Ben Klein
2009/8/28 Susan Cragin : > Change -- The program I test with is Dragon NaturallySpeaking. > > Yesterday's Ubuntu updates produced a rash of pulseaudio changes, and > suddenly alsa works with wine, without stumbling. > Today's secret to making it work: > In System/Preferences/Startup applications,

Re: progress of sound update -- REVISED

2009-08-28 Thread Susan Cragin
Change -- The program I test with is Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Yesterday's Ubuntu updates produced a rash of pulseaudio changes, and suddenly alsa works with wine, without stumbling. Today's secret to making it work: In System/Preferences/Startup applications, uncheck pulseaudio sudo apt-get in

progress of sound update

2009-08-28 Thread Susan Cragin
Yesterday's Ubuntu updates produced a rash of pulseaudio changes, and suddenly alsa works with wine, without stumbling. Today's secret to making it work: In System/Preferences/Startup applications, uncheck pulseaudio sudo apt-get install esound sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf autospawn = no Then