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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Then why does dmix lag? |
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> Then why does dmix lag? |
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I don't know; I don't care. I don't use dmix, I use PulseAudio, and it |
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takes care of everything in user space and I don't have to worry about |
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anything. |
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> I've tried it 6 days ago. Ubuntu 10.04. It's still a laggy, buggy, pile of |
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> ****. First thing I did was to disable it. |
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It doesn't lag here. It's rock solid stable. In all my computers, each |
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one with completely different sound hardware. And I'm just using the |
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ebuilds from Gentoo; I didn't configure *anything*. I didn't have to. |
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Maybe Ubuntu has something wrong: Lennart complained that they "didn't get it": |
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http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pa-in-ubuntu.html |
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> Yes, you and many people also find it acceptable to run their games with |
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> 10FPS, or to take their systems 1 minute to boot, etc. |
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My games doesn't run at 10FPS, my laptop boot in seconds (and usually |
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it's always suspended), my desktop and media center (specially the |
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latter) boot very quickly also. Please don't speak about something you |
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don't know anything about. |
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> I am not one of those people. I don't like it when the sound lags. You may |
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> claim that it doesn't bother you. But you can't claim that it doesn't |
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> happen. |
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I can claim it: it doesn't happen *to me*. It works beautifully. I'm |
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using Gentoo, with the following versions: |
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media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.21.1 |
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sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.32.9 |
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My sound card is : |
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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio |
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Controller (rev 03) |
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(I'm on my laptop; don't have the specs of my desktop or media center, |
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but the versions at least should be the same). |
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I simply don't have any sound lags. |
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> That doesn't mean ALSA is better. |
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Again, I trust more the technical judgement from the kernel |
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developers. No offense. |
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> Then why don't they fix it? It's still crap after all this time. |
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It's not in my case. Not at all. But (as I said in my last mail), this |
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is Open Source; if you think it's crap, you can try to fix it. |
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All I'm saying is that PulseAudio is a great sound architecture for |
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Linux. It works great for me, in several hardware configurations; and |
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in particular in my Media Center, which is my principal medium to |
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listen to music. And I trust the judgement of the ones that decided to |
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use ALSA+PulseAudio. |
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Regards. |
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-- |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Instituto de Matemáticas |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |