On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:06 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > 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" Small progress, this only happens with pulse backend of canberra, which isn't used in 9.04, which explains why I see that bug now. It is probably the canberra bug, maybe it doesn't tell pulse that sound is mono? (I think that notify sounds are mono) > > > 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)? Just one issue though. If a stream is played at low volume, and I click a button, a noise sound is emmited and it almost covers the notify sound. maybe this is a HW fault, or I suspect that PA reconfigures the played sound to play at lower volume, and this gives that noise sound. Anyway this is a bug. > > > 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. This will be futher investigated. > > 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 And this one I fixed :-) > > > Best regards, > Maxim Levitsky > > >
