On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 09:00 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: > 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 Sounds okay to me (layman). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
