On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Michal wrote: > Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> >> Disabling PulseAudio is not a very good idea on Fedora 12 especially, as the setup is >> quite highly dependent on it and it will cause many bad side effects like disabling all >> software mixing (as dmix is not configured). Switching off PulseAudio on a distribution >> which is set up to use it is pretty outdated and poor advice that I wish people would stop >> giving to people like yourself, as it almost certainly has nothing to do with your >> problem. > > Following defect is the same as mine, and the cure was to disable > pulseaudio. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/275998 I agree. For many many systems, with pulseaudio running, no sound comes out. With pulseaudion diabled, sound comes out of the soundcard. I therefor disable pulseaudio. Software mixing to silence is pretty useless. Now if Hancock had some useful advice as to how to get pulseaudio to actually produce sound, people might listen. > > I am also tracking another audio problem, where turning off pulseaudio > is a workaround. > > Turning pulseaudio is also the last resort suggested to isolate the > problems with audio (also for fc12): > http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds > > > I wanted to isolate the problem, just to be closer to the reason. > > For complete test just I enabled pulseaudio again, unfortunately no help. > Here are pulseaudio versions: > > prompt# rpm -qa | grep pulse > pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-2.fc12.i686 > pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-2.fc12.i686 > pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-2.fc12.i686 > kde-settings-pulseaudio-4.3-15.1.noarch > pulseaudio-0.9.21-2.fc12.i686 > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-2.fc12.i686 > pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-2.fc12.i686 > > Additionally I did another test: > > started my system to runlevel 3, then logged in as root. > with pulseaudio off, in alsamixer, enabled "boost mic +20db", "capture" > to max, "mic" to max. > then: > arecord -vv -fdat foo.wav > aplay -vv foo.wav > > unfortunatelly no help, I need to shout to hear anything. > > best regards, > Michal > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
