On Sunday 12 October 2008 06:01, William W. Austin wrote: > The first is a set of problems with pulseaudio. On my favorite > workstation, a 64-bit machine with a dual-core cpu, I have both a SB > Audigy 2 (350) and sound on the mb 8-channel real-tek. [snip] > If anyone has a working pulseaudio configuration which successfully > drives the Audigy 2 in 5+1 mode, I would love to see it. Even with > that I could probably move the speech synthesizer apps to another box. I don't have F9 on this machine to check, but it seems there were reports of Audigy working with pulseaudio on this list. You may want to check the archives. The main problem, though, is that you want to use both Audigy and Realtek cards simultaneously, which is problematic to setup (to say the least). There were questions on the list about that as well. The way I see it, pulseaudio works between userspace apps and ALSA. Its major (or only?) purpose is to make volume controls of various apps independent of each other. A typical use-case: you listen to some music in xmms, and then skype starts ringing. You want to answer the call and talk, while turning the volume of xmms down just a little so it doesn't interfere with your friends voice too much. Without pulseaudio this is downright impossible, because the only volume control available is the system-wide mixer --- which turns volume down for both xmms and skype simultaneously. Pulseaudio is designed to deal with this problem. Another use-case: you are watching a movie in mplayer, and have to turn the system volume way up high because the movie sound is badly recorded. And in the middle of playback, some background app suddenly crashes, and the KDE sound notification blows away your speakers and your ears. If you had pulseaudio, you could adjust the volume of mplayer and KDE notifications independently. I believe you have avoided such problems by using two sound cards, but this functionality should better be available in software rather then a hardware requirement. So you may choose to remove pulseaudio altogether and use only alsa and your old setup, or you may choose to try and configure pulseaudio to use both sound cards (though I don't know how to do it). > The other item which has me puzzled and less than happy is kde4. It > seems seriously "dumbed down" compared to kde3. Several configuration > items are either absent or so well hidden that they might as well be. This has also been discussed to death on the list. In short, KDE4 is not an upgrade of KDE3, but a complete rewrite from scratch. Given that, it still does lack some configuration options that were present in KDE3 --- the developers just need some more time to implement them again in the new code framework. But it is being done very fast, and KDE 4.2 (iirc, to come with F10) will be much more feature-rich then the present version 4.1. The complete rewrite of the code is due to the changed paradigm of what a desktop environment should be and how it should function --- note that icons are removed from the desktop and widgets are put on, etc. If you dislike the new paradigm you may stick with the dying KDE3.5, or configure KDE4 to resemble it as much as you can/need. > In particular, having the menu systems pinned (a la windoze) to a spot > on a panel rather than being able to assign them to mouse clicks > anywhere on the screen is a real drag. Not sure what you are describing. You can certainly add "Application Launcher" widget to the desktop, move it whereever you like and click on it to open the menus. What else do you have in mind? > And then there is the inability > to add apps to panel itself - a serious lack for my purposes. Update F9 to current KDE 4.1. Make sure widgets are unlocked. Open the menu in kickoff style, browse to your app, right click and select "add to panel". > Either it > was someone's intention to dumb down kde4 the way that gnome has been > so that more technical users have to give up and go elsewhere OR a good > deal of the "configurability" which was present in kde3 is simply not > ready yet for kde4. (yes, I *have* edited my menus - that's not an > issue.) The latter. Not all configurability is ready yet. One thing I miss a lot is panel hiding. I hear it is to be implemented in version 4.2, so I just have to wait for it. :-( > I would simply remove kde4 and go back to kde3, but I have already > tried that once, but it was not successful as (at least) a few other > apps seem to depend on kde4's presence, so I had to reinstall it. As I understand it is quite hard to go back. Basically, your best bet would be to remove everything related to KDE4, and then recompile whole KDE3 from source. But I've also read that KDE3 is dying (no longer being developed nor actively maintained) so maybe this is not such a good option for long-term. > On this issue, it's possible that I have missed something, and if so > someone please clue me in (I have RTFM'ed AND RTFsourceCode + web > searched so much that my eyes are beginning to rebel). > > Any suggestions on either of these two points would be VERY greatly > appreciated. OTOH I'll probably wake up tomorrow with solutions to all > of the above and will feel really stoopid for sending this email. HTH, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
