On Wed, 23.12.09 10:29, Joerg Anders (jan at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm convinced you are all very proud and happy of PulseAudio. > But read what I had to write to the many NtEd > > (http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/nted.xhtml) > > users which have no hardware MIDI synthesizer und rely > to TiMidity++ > > (http://timidity.sourceforge.net/) > > http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/doc/ch01s50.html > > This text is an own chapter of the NtEd documentation. > Many users wrote me they cannot longer use the NtEd replay. > > And indeed, as I installed Ubuntu 9.10 or Fedora 11, respectively, > - where Pulsaudio is the basic audio system - > I experienced sound distortions and hanging sound. > > The only remedy: Wipe out PulseAudio! Sometimes it suffices > to create a Non-PulsAudio-TiMidity++ "by hand". But in some > tougher cases the only way is to remove PulseAudio from system. > > I'm convinced there are still more sequencer-like applecations > which have the same problem. IIRC there's some documentation in the wiki regarding timidity and PA. Also, I think timidity needs to become normal user code in which case the big problems should go away. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
