So I carefully set everything up for it, and it now works (except 32 bit compat libraries for skype ) Speaking of 32 bit compat libraries, is there a tutorial how to compile these? (It isn't trivial, since I need alsa, pa libraries and plugins for alsa) 1 - all sounds played through libcanberra (using pulse backend) (which was installed from source (everything from latest git branches), play on right speaker only, and this is confirmed by pavucontrol which display the volume for notify sound briefly (which I consider a bug on its own, because this makes it impossible to change a stream location - clicking on the stream chooser button, takes focus out of it, thus prevents device list from being shown) It displays "front right" 2 - flat volumes are evil. It feels like a feature being removed. Now changing a volume for a stream directly affects main volume, and alsa volume through it. I though that one of main PA features, was a volume control per stream. Could you explain me what flat volumes are (I know that turning them off fixes this issue)? 3 - PA sometimes dies, and it is impossible to make it log to a file, other that writing a wrapper script. Wrapper script doesn't help much ether, as new autostart feature, tries to launch many copies of PA, and only one starts. This creates a lots of 'false positives' I can disable autostart, but then, I need to write a tool to autostart and restart it, maybe this is the right solution. (syslog doesn't seem to be able to put an output of a daemon to a file. of course I can grep the log files, but having a clean seperate log files seems to be better. And recently I did another update of alsa library, and PA. Now controlling the sound via gstreamer (from gnome-volume-control, and other places like applet, sound wheel) is broken, now it works like that, first slider seems to work, but then it stops updating the volume, untill I close and start mixer again, (or select a different device from device list in gnome-volume-control, and back) and it repeats Best regards, Maxim Levitsky
