Burkhard Ritter wrote: > 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. > > That's certainly one part of the issue. Although I find the applets are quite handy when I'm using the correct one. In Fedora there is a "volume control" and a "pulse vu control" which both have the same icon and are similarly named as to be confusing. Also the pulse vu control is accessed via the applicaations/sound and video menu where as the vu control is accessed via System/Preferences/Hardware/ I personally feel that pulse vu control should be in the systems menu. There is also a problem with the general negative attitude towards pulse audio that can be seen when doing a search on the web for information about how to make it work. I think this negative feedback creates a negative user experience. Cheers. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd > Burkhard > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
