On Fri, 16 May 2008 23:23:12 +0100 "Chris Cannam" <cannam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 16/05/2008, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well, it works perfectly for me, on two separate Ubuntu 8.04 > > machines, without hardware mixing, one using pulseaudio and one > > using alsa + dmix. > > By the way, to come back to this -- is there any way in the Ubuntu > config GUIs to find out which server/setup you're using? I have > everything set to Autoconfig, and according to "ps" I do have > pulseaudio running, but I don't see anything in the GUI to say so. > And although the GUI does mention ESD, I don't actually seem to have > ESD running regardless of whether it's enabled in the GUI or not. > > Similarly, if I had more than one soundcard, where would I go to tell > pulseaudio which one to use? > > I'm quite fond of the new Ubuntu, but as far as sound is concerned, > for me it really doesn't seem to be any improvement over earlier > distros. > > > Chris >From my experience, the ESD-option in the gui enables/disables PA. There shouldn't be any other soundserver running, afaik. PAs gui is quite strange, you need to start the PA-device chooser, then (!)leftclick on the thing in the taskbar. Choose the volume control, it's the only part of the control stuff I needed so far and contains the controls one usually wants. Go to the output devices-tab, rightclick on the device you want to have as default device and you'll see a context menu with a single checkbox reading 'Default'. On the playback-tab you can change the output device of a 'playing' app in the same manner. Hope this helps. I agree that it isn't really a big improvement, in parts because of the strange gui, its bad integration into the desktop and the incompatibility between PA and portaudio and similar problems. Best Regards, murks _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
