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Hi everybody, |
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not trying to stir up a flamewar about pulseaudio viability etc. I want |
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to make my setup work *with* the pulseaudio, but I feel like I'm missing |
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something. So I'd rather avoid comments "don't use it then" if at all |
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possible. |
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What I have: |
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Gentoo + KDE-4.4.5 + pulseaudio-0.9.21.1 |
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How I use it: |
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In KDE I've got Xine backend setup for playback (if I use gstreamer I |
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get higher frequency of problems popping up, see below). |
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Problems I see: |
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Whenever any app tries to use KDE sound notification system I have a |
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good chance of sound becoming garbled in Amarok (while listening to the |
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music), heck even non-KDE apps like Skype would work fine until |
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something else decides to use sound device (like gnash/lighspark, etc.). |
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Chances of getting garbled sound are 50/50 - it's never a guarantee: |
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sometimes it works - sometimes it "crashes". To get sound back I have to |
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restart app (Skype, Firefox, Amarok, etc.). |
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How I configured it: |
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$ cat /etc/asound.conf |
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# as per http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications |
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# we're using pulseaudio for everything now... |
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# |
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pcm.pulse { |
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type pulse |
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} |
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ctl.pulse { |
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type pulse |
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} |
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pcm.!default { |
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type pulse |
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} |
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ctl.!default { |
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type pulse |
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} |
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$ cat ~/.asoundrc |
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pcm.hda-intel { |
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type hw |
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card 0 |
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} |
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ctl.hda-intel { |
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type hw |
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card 0 |
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} |
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I've been living with above problems for a while now not having much |
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time to investigate and writing it off as immaturity of stack, but it |
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was out for quite a while and obviously people use it with better rate |
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of success (judging by online resources). |
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My HW looks like this: |
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$ cat /proc/asound/cards |
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0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia |
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HDA NVidia at 0xfe020000 irq 20 |
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2 [U0x46d0x809 ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x809 |
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USB Device 0x46d:0x809 at usb-0000:00:02.1-2, high |
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speed |
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(second device is a Logitec's USB WebCam). |
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I realize it may be a question more geared toward pulseaudio community |
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but I'd rather find out whether there's something Gentoo-specific I'm |
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missing first. |