On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:27:51 +0100 Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In a moment of stupidity I managed to trash the install on one of my > machines. There was no practical way to undo the damage (this is > debian testing) so I did a fresh install from scratch - I must say > the debian install discs have improved a lot! Do they include ping nowadays ? Or do they still find it takes too much place and is absolutely not needed ? :) > Anyway the first time I tried to do any audio work I got Xruns all > over the place on stuff that had been rock-solid previously. However, > a quick look at htop revealed that pulseaudio was running three > threads right in the middle of the jack stuff. Deleting just the > 'pulseaudio' server cured the problem, and nothing else seems to > complain. First time I hear about htop. Just compiled it and installed it. I'll use that for the next 'crackling session'. Did you use the F5 'Tree' option ? - any other interesting options to aid in troubleshooting ? > The icing on the cake is that various programs that like to make > annoying beeps and bongs are now quite silent :) It's amazing how this is still going on. It should be very clear that the hollywoodian sci-fi paradigm of having beeps and blops going one with electronic instruments does not make any sense. It will turn anyone mad to spend 1 year in space with that noise going on for the most of the time. Software makers still think it's a good thing to have a beep along warning and error messages. There are rare cases of practical use, as when receiving emails, and that's a maybe. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
