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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + KDE + pulseaudio + ? == happiness
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:59:42
Message-Id: 4CBD5DD7.2070209@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + KDE + pulseaudio + ? == happiness by "Dmitry S. Makovey"
1 Am 19.10.2010 06:14, schrieb Dmitry S. Makovey:
2 [...]
3 >
4 > What I have:
5 > Gentoo + KDE-4.4.5 + pulseaudio-0.9.21.1
6 >
7 > How I use it:
8 > In KDE I've got Xine backend setup for playback (if I use gstreamer I
9 > get higher frequency of problems popping up, see below).
10 >
11 > Problems I see:
12 > Whenever any app tries to use KDE sound notification system I have a
13 > good chance of sound becoming garbled in Amarok (while listening to the
14 > music), heck even non-KDE apps like Skype would work fine until
15 > something else decides to use sound device (like gnash/lighspark, etc.).
16 > Chances of getting garbled sound are 50/50 - it's never a guarantee:
17 > sometimes it works - sometimes it "crashes". To get sound back I have to
18 > restart app (Skype, Firefox, Amarok, etc.).
19 >
20 [...]
21
22 For me, this sounds like a mixing problem. Maybe the problem is a bit
23 obfuscated because some applications use alsa directly, other use phonon
24 and yet others use pulseaudio. I cannot give you very clear directions
25 but this should get you going:
26 http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Hardware_mixing,_software_mixing
27
28 Hope this helps,
29 Florian Philipp

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