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On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:37:23 BST Michael wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Have I to go the PulseAudio route after all? |
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> You do not *have to*, but if you find the PulseAudio server and associated |
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> GUI/CLI tools are convenient for you, then you can set up USE=pulseaudio and |
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> use that to mix your sound sinks and sources devices with. |
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> As Canek has already posted in most cases it just works. However, I must |
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> confess I had a spate of pa processes racing up to 100% CPU and annoyingly |
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> respawning each time I tried to kill it. An update eventually fixed this |
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> problem and it worked fine ever since. |
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Well, after setting USE=pulseaudio and emerging uaDvN @world, sound has |
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reappeared. I haven't tried multiple sources yet, but - one thing at a time. |
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Web-cam next, in between recommissioning other boxes with my new display-port |
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KVM. I'm getting too old and stiff for this. :( |
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[OT] Fully in accordance with Murphy, yesterday's upgrade of ICU had already |
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caused rebuilds of all the big packages (rust, qt-core, llvm, clang, |
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virtualbox, libreoffice, firefox, both web kits ...). What with those, remerging |
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everything took half the day. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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