Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >>>> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
> >>>> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.
> >>>
> >>> sure?
> >>
> >> Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot:
> >>
> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.htm
> >> l
> >>
> >> PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a
> >> dep :-/  Will file a bug about it.
> >>
> >> As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot
> >> compete with OSS4's vmix.  But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix
> >> though, which is surprising.
> >>
> >> Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working.  That is, it loads OK, but
> >> there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend.
> >> The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops
> >> and crackles).  Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA?  I tried to
> >> set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no
> >> sound.
> >
> > yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA.
>
> "audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/
>
> > Why again are you wasting your time with PA?
>
> Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4.  So I ought to
> actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup",
> or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about.

really? There are people claiming that? ok, everything is better than OSS4 - 
but PA? That crap is almost as bad as ESD.