> 2. Fix the ALSA emulation in PulseAudio and Ubuntu's ALSA configuration so > that > what Audacity does is acceptable and doesn't crash things. This might include > hiding the real ALSA devices so only the faked ones are visible, and ensuring > that the full ALSA API works (or at least doesn't crash things).
Probably the easiest thing to do is just deny permission to access the real Alsa devices to all applications except PulseAudio or Jack. In my experience I can use Audacity just fine using the virtual Alsa device offered by Pulseaudio. It can record and play back on any Alsa device I can use, just as long as I don't let it actually try to configure any real Alsa device on it's own. Same thing with most any other application. Nobody except the sound daemon should be allowed to touch the hardware if there is a sound daemon running. It's like trying to run a application that writes directly to the video framebuffer, uncontrolled, while your using X. Bad things are bound to happen. But that is probably beyond the scope of this bug. I will probably have to file a bug somewhere else. Maybe one of those paper cut things or something. I don't really know what the most appropriate place to goto then. > Neither is going to get done by me (I don't run PulseAudio, or indeed Gnome, > and have many higher priorities), and as the supply of other Linux developers > round here is rather thin, don't hold out too much hope for anyone else from > Audacity picking it up. That's too bad, although I don't blame you or expect you to fix it. Just as long as people realize that Audacity on Ubuntu is a currently broken-by-default configuration and know to avoid using it that's what really matters the most. If you want to mark it down as "Won't Fix" I am not going to hold it against you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/687689 Title: Audacity ruins bluetooth -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
