> I think you can remove x bit from pulseaudio binary and be done with it. Not sure what you mean by this ... do you mean "chmod -x pulseaudio"?
It is great chromium can play audio, but not having gnome-settings-daemon support for changing audio device is a pain ... I have to use sysctl for all my sound settings ... Cheers On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Konstantin Kulikov <[email protected]> wrote: > Out of all packages you can only rebuild gtk-vnc without PULSEAUDIO > support. > If sound in chromium works for you, I think you can remove x bit from > pulseaudio binary and be done with it. > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:27 PM Bernard Mentink <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> Thanks for the update. Pulseaudio has been the bane of many people for a >> longtime .... seems it would be best without it if possible. >> >> Is there anyway to get the Gnome sound setting UI (for example) to use >> OSS instead of pulse? .... or maybe some shim layer between pulse API >> calls and OSS ... (not ideal I know) >> >> Actually, I don't even know if the sound system is OSS in DFly, I know it >> is in FreeBSD .... documentation is a bit missing on the sound side I am >> afraid. >> >> Matt, very impressed with the speed/responsiveness of the kernel and >> Hammer ..... awesome work ... >> >> Konstantin: >> >> First comand returns: >> DFly% pkg query -i "%n - %Ok: %Ov" | grep -i pulse >> alsa-plugins - PULSEAUDIO: off >> chromium - PULSEAUDIO: off >> espeak - PULSEAUDIO: off >> ffmpeg - PULSEAUDIO: off >> freerdp - PULSEAUDIO: off >> gtk-vnc - PULSEAUDIO: on >> libao - PULSEAUDIO: off >> libcanberra-gtk3 - PULSEAUDIO: off >> ptlib - PULSEAUDIO: off >> pulseaudio - ALSA: off >> pulseaudio - AVAHI: on >> pulseaudio - BASH: off >> pulseaudio - GCONF: off >> pulseaudio - JACK: off >> pulseaudio - SIMD: on >> pulseaudio - ZSH: off >> sdl - PULSEAUDIO: off >> speech-dispatcher - PULSEAUDIO: off >> spice-gtk - PULSEAUDIO: off >> >> >> Second Command: >> >> pulseaudio-8.0: gnome-settings-daemon-3.18.2_2 >> pulseaudio-8.0: gnome-shell-3.18.4_2 >> pulseaudio-8.0: gtk-vnc-0.5.4_1 >> pulseaudio-8.0: empathy-3.12.11_1 >> >> >> Cheers, >> Bernie >> >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> We haven't had any luck making our sound driver ioctls 100% compatible >>> with linux. The linux code is totally undocumented so its hard to figure >>> out some of the buffering counters (used for sound synchronization with >>> video mainly) are supposed to work. I can make it not eat 100% cpu in >>> chrome and firefox, but other use cases seem to blow up and I don't know >>> why. >>> >>> -Matt >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Bernard Mentink <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Thanks for that. Actually, I want to use Gnome rather than KDE. >>>> >>>> I am finding that with Gnome I can have sound from Chromium/Youtube >>>> etc, but when I call up the Gnome sound-settings tool, then pulseaudio >>>> get's launched and used 100% cpu and crashes Gnome eventually ... >>>> >>>> Can I re-compile some lib in Gnome that does away with pulse? >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Konstantin Kulikov < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey. >>>>> Can't say why pulseaudio doesn't work, but IIRC you can rebuild >>>>> kdelibs without pulseaudio support and use other audio backend like >>>>> vlc/gstreamer. >>>>> Hope this helps. >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:26 PM Bernard Mentink <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I also notice this bug report from 6 months ago, is it related? >>>>>> http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2881 >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Bernie >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Bernard Mentink <[email protected] >>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> HI all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I thought I would open a separate thread on this issue. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When I load the* snd_hda* module and play some sound, the >>>>>>> pulseaudio process uses 100% of one CPU core (I have 4), however the >>>>>>> sound >>>>>>> is fine. Even no playing anything, pulse is stuck at 100% >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is there anyway to get pulse to work correctly? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> My hardware is an HP Desktop and sysctl reports the audio device as: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> pcm0: <Realtek ALC662 (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0)> at nid 20,27 and 24,25,26 >>>>>>> on hdaa0 >>>>>>> pcm1: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa1 >>>>>>> pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa0 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> As far as I can tell, the Realtek device support s 44.1K,48K and 96K >>>>>>> sampling, so down-sampling should not be an issue. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> All KDE sees is the "pulse" device with VLC backend. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> Bernie >>>>>>> >>>>>>> PS: Other users have had the same issue .... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
