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On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 12/03/2009 09:08 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: |
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> ... |
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>> |
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>> Lately, I've had zero issues with alsa pretty much configuring itself |
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>> properly, given I'm using the in kernel alsa drivers for my systems... |
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>> and it hasn't required any manual configuration of dmix or similar to |
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>> function properly. Last time I used a separate sound daemon (aside |
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>> from a short stent with Ubuntu on my netbook that, I think, had me |
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>> using pulseaudio), I was running esound to manage audio from a |
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>> headless box over my network... and ESD was playing nicely with other |
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>> straight alsa apps on the same box... |
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> I discovered a few weeks ago that I could completely delete all traces |
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> of arts, pulse, *and* esd, and still I can listen to a podcast from |
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> npr.org with firefox and play an mp3 using audacious at the same time. |
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> (Which drives me totally nuts, BTW, and I did it only as a test.) |
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> As you say, alsa seems to DTRT by itself these days. The only thing |
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> I'm not sure about is whether the gnome-panel volume/mixer applet is |
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> now doing what esound used to do. |
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> If you still have esound installed you can try it yourself. Just |
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> remove the arts, esd, and pulse USE flags first, then remove any/all |
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> of those packages from the machine and revdep-rebuild. It's amazing |
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> how many packages are linked against esound and AFAICT they no longer |
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> need to be. (This applies to gnome, of course.) |
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> OTOH, I haven't tested every sound-related app on my machine, so I |
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> might be missing some important exceptions. |
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All Gnome's volume/mixer applet does, AFAIK, is the same as alsamixer, |
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on a less cli/ncurses interface... just volume control for the |
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channels the card tells the driver to tell the alsa subsystem it has |
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;) ... it doesn't have anything more, really, to do with the actual |
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'mixing' than that, and it works just as well without it, as evidenced |
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by my netbook with ratpoison, no arts, esd, pulseaudio, etc... |
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listening to a radio stream on one aterm that's running mplayer |
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(outputting to bare alsa) and getting prompt and proper alerts from |
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Skype at the same time. |
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'Course, all the anecdotal evidence in the world won't make the |
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problem the OP is seeing. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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