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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 11:14:37
Message-Id: ht8e97$q5p$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 >>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
5 >>>> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
6 >>>> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.
7 >>>
8 >>> sure?
9 >>
10 >> Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot:
11 >>
12 >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.html
13 >>
14 >> PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a
15 >> dep :-/ Will file a bug about it.
16 >>
17 >> As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot
18 >> compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix
19 >> though, which is surprising.
20 >>
21 >> Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but
22 >> there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend.
23 >> The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops
24 >> and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried to
25 >> set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no sound.
26 >
27 > yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA.
28
29 "audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/
30
31
32 > Why again are you wasting your time with PA?
33
34 Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4. So I ought to
35 actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup",
36 or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>