I'm no expert in this area but don't you guys worry that you are trying to hold back the ocean with a teaspoon? You can't fight the march of technology. If pulse is the wave of the future, I would tend to want to get started working with it rather than tossing it aside. I just started working with sonar linux last week. I put it on my backup desktop at work. In my limited testing up to this point, it seems to be rock solid. I plan to continue trying it on my backup workstation at work and on my machine at home for a few more days before converting the machine I use to earn my bread and beer. I can understand an attitude of saying that you need to postpone an upgrade because the technology just isn't there yet. That's why I'm typing this message on a machine still running debian squeeze. But as soon as I am sure I can switch to a newer distro that works, I'm doing it. On 11/30/13 22:38, Janina Sajka wrote: > Yes, screen rocks! > > I do keep the gui, mainly for firefox even though it requires that I use > a second audio device. > > Everything else is tty's and screen terminals. About half of my tty's > launch subject specific screen sessions with multiple terminals. In all > of those, I have aliases for mplayer to talk to several additional audio > devices, or ecaplay, or aplay. All works like a charm. > > Janina > > Doug Smith writes: >> >> >> I really have quit a bit to say here. I have also terminated pulse with extreme prejudice on this system. I have also terminated the entire >> graphical user interface with the same finality. I am using debian testing without the desktop on it. >> >> The way it works is that, when you use the text-based installer to install the system, it uses alsa for the sound. I have speakup system wide and I >> have a fully functioning sound system on here that performs perfectly. I can use multiple audio sources, and I have nothing to worry about because I >> do not have to, if I do not want to, switch between consoles. Where it works well, I just use screen and there is no problem for me to play my >> descriptive movie, program and whatever else all at once. >> >> >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Doug Smith: Special Agent >> S.W.A.T Spiritual Warfare and Advanced Technology >> Forever serving our LORD and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu
