TheOther wrote: > From this (disabling the motherboard sound chip) I inferred that > PulseAudio was developed as a means for helping Windows users transfer > to Linux in a painless manner. I'm assuming PulseAudio was never > intended to be useful for advanced Linux audio users, because it > wasn't checking for additional sound chips/cards/devices *and* > allowing the user to specify the order in which those sound > chips/cards/devices would be used. PulseAudio always defaulted to the > motherboard sound chip, and a fair number of Linux sound applications > always default to the default sound chip/card/device (which in the > case of PulseAudio will be the motherboard sound chip.) Hence, you're > having all this trouble in trying to use a special video/audio card > because PulseAudio and very likely your sound application are only > trying to use your motherboard sound chip, since that is the default. > > Hope this helps, > Stephen. This is just wrong. You can change the default card easily from the pulseaudio applet, see a recent thread for details and discussion. I'm beginning to suspect that the bad acceptance of Pulseaudio that's perceivable at least on this list is in not a small part only due to bad user interface design. Namely hiding major functionality in context menus in obscure places. Burkhard _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
