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From: "András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + KDE + pulseaudio + ? == happiness
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:07:09
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In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + KDE + pulseaudio + ? == happiness by Florian Philipp
1 2010/10/19 Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>:
2 > Am 19.10.2010 06:14, schrieb Dmitry S. Makovey:
3 > [...]
4 >>
5 >> What I have:
6 >> Gentoo + KDE-4.4.5 + pulseaudio-0.9.21.1
7 >>
8 >> How I use it:
9 >> In KDE I've got Xine backend setup for playback (if I use gstreamer I
10 >> get higher frequency of problems popping up, see below).
11 >>
12 >> Problems I see:
13 >> Whenever any app tries to use KDE sound notification system I have a
14 >> good chance of sound becoming garbled in Amarok (while listening to the
15 >> music), heck even non-KDE apps like Skype would work fine until
16 >> something else decides to use sound device (like gnash/lighspark, etc.).
17 >> Chances of getting garbled sound are 50/50 - it's never a guarantee:
18 >> sometimes it works - sometimes it "crashes". To get sound back I have to
19 >> restart app (Skype, Firefox, Amarok, etc.).
20 >>
21 > [...]
22 >
23 > For me, this sounds like a mixing problem. Maybe the problem is a bit
24 > obfuscated because some applications use alsa directly, other use phonon
25 > and yet others use pulseaudio. I cannot give you very clear directions
26 > but this should get you going:
27 > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Hardware_mixing,_software_mixing
28
29 Hi Guys,
30
31 I have the same problem to as Dmitry. But I'm confused because my
32 system doesn't have neither /etc/asoundrc nor ~.asoundrc file. Can you
33 tell me which package contains this?
34
35 My system is amd64.
36
37 Thanks for clarification in advance!
38
39 András
40
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + KDE + pulseaudio + ? == happiness Steffen Loos <fenlo@×××.net>