I've got quite the similar situation, I was having problems with my built-in sound card, (i still do, actually). So I just opened up Synaptic (ubuntu's yum analog) and installed pretty much everything that had "sound" or "audio" in it's name. :) That didn't help much, but PA stuff stayed there and I got curious about it ;) V. Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 10:40 -0800, Vasili Sviridov wrote: > >> A bit of offtopic... >> >> Hehe, usually one figures out if one needs it and then try to gets it to >> work, as opposed to: "Oh, sweet, i got it working, now let's see what >> the heck it is..." :) >> > > (Sorry to take us further off-topic :) ) > > I think that's an inherent trait for many Linux users. At my last job I > was well known for always coming up with fantastic solutions... and then > trying to find problems to apply them to. :) > > And to be honest, when I first started using PA it was kind of on a > whim. I had heard the name, and as I was currently using ESD and it was > touted as a drop-in replacement I thought, let's try it. I'll see if I > like it and then decide whether to go back to ESD or not. Needless to > say, I never went back. :) And it was only a few weeks AFTER I started > using it that I realized all of the cool things that I could do with it. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >
