On 11/09/2008, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Bill Crawford > <billcrawford1970@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 11/09/2008, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> * Sounblaster Live 5.1 PCI -- has full 6 channel audio before, I had >>> for a short while after enabling it as per the pulseaudio wiki, but no >>> more >> >> If it's one of the SBs with multiple hardware channels, unless you are >> likely to want >32 separate apps pumping out sound at once, disable PA >> and just access the card through ALSA directly. It's worked ok for me >> :o) > > > I'm pretty sure disabling PulseAudio will work since it worked before > PulseAudio. But disabling it defeats the purpose. If you have multi-channel hardware that mixes itself, then using PulseAudio sort of defeats the purpose of that hardware ;o) I'll accept the argument about allowing mixing with different volume levels from different sources, but in theory that can be done via ALSA if the hardware allows it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
