2009/12/29 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 16:21 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: >> 2009/12/28 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 21:35 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: >> >> I recently was introduced to nted >> >> Tried it on my debian-lenny desktop and it works nicely. >> >> But now need it on my laptop for a travel-demo session. >> >> >> >> Now the laptop (was) running hardy which has some pulseaudio headaches. >> >> In any case I had to upgrade because the clone monitor which is needed >> >> for a presentation does not work in hardy >> >> >> >> Now the headaches increase! Pulseaudio more and more tightly >> >> integrated into ubuntu and nted (or is it timidity?) does not like it >> >> at all. >> >> Managed to remove pulse (with some associated packages) >> >> >> >> nted works once again but I cant adjust volume and and clicks and >> >> other ubuntu sounds which could be configured with >> >> System->preferences->sound wont come up saying: Waiting for sound >> >> system to respond. >> >> >> >> Any suggestions? >> > >> > Ubuntu sans Pulseaudio is a pain to get working. You'd probably have >> > better luck getting nted to run on pulseaudio. >> > >> > A quick search reveals >> > http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/doc/ch01s50.html >> >> That link basically says dont use pulseaudio (if you want to use nted) >> >> > >> > Having never used nted before, I can't really comment much, but wouldn't >> > using JACK solve things, since pulseaudio now plays quite well with jack >> > (jackdmp, not jack 0.118 or whatever they're on now for jack1). >> >> The last time I tried jack (this was on debian about a year back) my >> sound stopped working. Of course Ive not idea how to use jack so Im >> not complaining. >> >> If you could tell me what packages to try Ill try and see. >> >> Also (if some such thing is there) I would very much like to see >> something about linux sound architecture. IOW jack, pulse and esd all >> seem to be 'servers' of some sort and (from what you say) jack seems >> to work well with pulse but pulse and esd are an either-or. So whats >> the bigger picture of all this. > > Sorry, no link for you, but here's my understanding. > > Control of audio devices in Linux is done by ALSA ... Thanks for taking the time to write this up. Just found this on the ubuntu wiki http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5931543 It sounds detailed and exhaustive but I am not sure how authoritative. It would be real neat if some more authoritative figures could read that and comment... Thanks again and happy new year to all Rustom _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
