On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:12 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote:> On Monday 24 November 2008, Dave Phillips wrote:> > > rosea grammostola wrote:> > > > Is pulseaudio useful? or can I remove it?> > >> > > I've only used Pulseaudio in the context of a review of media> players> > > for Ubuntu 8.04. At that time and for that purpose it performed> fine,> > > but I don't know how it interoperates with JACK or other servers.> AFAIK> > > you can remove it, but you'll probably find that it's a dependency> for> > > many other apps. Boo-hiss for that factor. :(> > >> > > I'm learmning about Ubuntu 8.10 now as a matter of necessity. So far> so> > > good, but I've yet to muck about with the Pulseaudio stuff. Nothing> > > against the software itself, but I don't need it, don't want it, and> > > would like to cleanly remove it.> > Pulseaudio itself is quite useful, though i don't use it myself. There> however _is_ a problem with the ubuntu way of using it. They use a> virtual PCM device for pulseaudio and make it the _default_ pcm device> vie /etc/asound.conf. On my system this effectively kills all sound,> as it uses the modem device i have in my system.. Thus all alsa app go> through my onboard modem. I didn't find a way to change this. So in my> login scripts i now have> > killall pulseaudio> > as an effective solution ;) Another would be to edit /etc/asound.conf> I have found that using pulse audio volume control gives me a handylittle interface that I can set the stream to point to the correct cardper application. The first time I use an app I just need to make sure it is beingdirected through the correct device. > Flo> > -- > > Palimm Palimm!> > http://tapas.affenbande.org> > _______________________________________________> Linux-audio-user mailing list> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user-- Patrick ShirkeyBoost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________Linux-audio-user mailing listLinux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
