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On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>> On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>>>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>>>> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS |
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>>>>>> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> sure? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot: |
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>>>> |
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>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.htm |
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>>>> l |
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>>>> |
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>>>> PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a |
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>>>> dep :-/ Will file a bug about it. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot |
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>>>> compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix |
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>>>> though, which is surprising. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but |
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>>>> there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend. |
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>>>> The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops |
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>>>> and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried to |
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>>>> set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no |
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>>>> sound. |
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>>> |
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>>> yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA. |
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>> |
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>> "audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/ |
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>> |
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>>> Why again are you wasting your time with PA? |
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>> |
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>> Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4. So I ought to |
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>> actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup", |
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>> or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about. |
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> |
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> really? There are people claiming that? ok, everything is better than OSS4 - |
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> but PA? That crap is almost as bad as ESD. |
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Well if I'm going to use ALSA I need something that gives me |
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per-application volume control since ALSA is too broken to even provide |
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that while the rest of the world moved on. |
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