Hi Stefan, Stefan Czinczoll wrote: > as long-term Mandriva user I was not sure how to judge the decision to switch over from esd to pulseaudio. If you have a choice like that between KDE/GNOME it makes sense for me. > > The new cooker updates ruined my soundsystem - well, on software level, and I'd like to compile pulseaudio and give it a try on my own. Soundcard is Audigy 4, kernel driver snd-emu-10k1. I've already set up a cooker bug report, which contains some details: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=38348. > > I know how to do a subversion checkout, but am stuck at the install part (./configure fails with no install.sh file found). Could you please help? I can only apologise fro not commenting on the Mdv bug report before.... don't know how I missed that one :( Building from SVN is quite easy, but be warned that you need a few patches to 0.9.9 to make everything work OK. You can have a look at the patches we apply in Mandriva by installing the Source RPM or looking in our subversion repo for the package here: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/pulseaudio/current/ I'd imagine your problems relate in some capacity to the emu10k1 driver/card but I'm not overly familiar with this h/w so perhaps other users here may have more info. Col
