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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 05/22/2010 04:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>> 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.h
>>>>>> tm 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.
>>
>> Well if I'm going to use ALSA I need something that gives me
>> per-application volume control since ALSA is too broken to even provide
>> that while the rest of the world moved on.
>
> oh yeah, one other thing:
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Softvol
>
> ALSA CAN control the volume of every single app. You just choose to ignore it.
> Or you chose not to look for it. Either way, it is there.
>
> Without the inherent brokenness of OSS4

You live in your own little world, Armin.  That has nothing to do with 
per-app volume.  You're as ignorant as ever and I must ask myself why I 
choose to waste time talking with you, over and over again.

This discussion is over.  Welcome to my killfile.

*plonk*