On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:37:59PM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 01:41 -0500, Paul Jones wrote: > --snip-- > > My problem is that after installing and starting Pulseaudio I cannot > > run any ALSA applications. When I go to "Gstreamer Properties" and > > select ALSA it doesn't work, but ALSA does work when I am not running > > Pulseaudio. > --snip-- > > However, when I try the configuration file from the Gentoo Linux ALSA > > Wiki for Pulseaudio as my /etc/pulse/default.pa, then everything > > works. I can use ALSA with Pulseaudio. This is because the Gentoo > > configuration files sets the default ALSA device as "dmix" This is > > obviously unnecessary if you're using Pulseaudio. I don't want to take > > the performance hit of using dmix with Pulseaudio because I want the > > speed. > > It sounds to me like your virtual pulse device isn't working. Have you > checked which version of ALSA you have installed? The pulse plugin for > ALSA was added in 1.0.12. You can do an 'apt-cache policy alsa-base' to > see what version of ALSA you have installed. Also note that the actual pulse alsa plugin is in the libasound2-plugins package. (It's recommended by the pulseaudio package, so most package manager will install it for you automagically, but still worth a check) Sjoerd -- We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
