On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:08 AM, deloptes <deloptes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >> what happens with alsamixer and alsamixergui? i suspect you have a >> loop on your hands where pulseaudio has taken control without your >> consent or knowledge of the ALSA devices. >> > > what do you mean? I installed pulse and let it take control. alsamixer works > just fine. When alsamixer is invoked without argument, it shows pulseaudio > as audiocard. ... so pulseaudio is configured to "take over" ALSA, and to offer an alternative ALSA interface. > When I run it with -c 0 it shows the audiocard as when pulse > was not installed ok yes, so that tells us that pulseaudio is trying to "take over" ALSA, then offer a 2nd ALSA "gateway" interface. > when killing PA, kmix also goes at 100% CPU - need to quit kmix. When I > press volume key kmix starts again interesting. > Well, I appreciate your opinion, ... experience. pulseaudio is involved in most of the audio f***-ups i've been forced to deal with. > but there must be a solution, so that kmix > does not go 100% CPU. it's the first time i've ever heard of kmix doing that... but then i never ran it with pulseaudio. what happens if you run it *without* pulseaudio? is it fine then? also, have you ever installed jackd (and the jackd pulseaudio plugin). i now run with jackd->pulseaudio because i have a MIDI application that i occasionally run... but also it turns out that applications are a bit more stable going through jackd. the advantage is that f****g pulseaudio gets the f*** off the damn ALSA interface (because it detects that jackd is running and managing it), and jackd does a hell of a lot better job of directing audio through to ALSA. l. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
