* Alan McConnell <a...@his.com> [2014-11-07 14:05 -0500]: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 07:18:00PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Please always reply to 768...@bugs.debian.org as well. Others can > > participate on the solution you'll find. > Sorry! This is my first report of a bug in 10 years > of running Debian.
> > > > craclling as before. An interesting feature: when I turn > > > off the vlc , the background music stops, the screen > > > disappears . . . but the crackling continues for several > > > seconds before quiet is restored. > > > > You can tell vlc to use an alsa-plugin instead of a pulse-one. > > > > tools -> preferences -> Audio -> Output module -> ALSA audio output > I don't understand this line. Can you be more specific? Run vlc and set the output to "ALSA audio output" > > > > Well, pulse starts automagic. Please run as user: > > > > $ echo "autospawn=no" >> $HOME/.pulse/client.conf > > > > This will prevent pulseaudio to start. > I have just done this. But I don't understand the > relationship between ALSA and pulseaudio. Are they > competitors? supposed to work together? They should. [...] > > It should be the best to update your systen at least to Lenny. It's > Did you mean Lenny? thats Debian 5, no? I have just > installed Wheezy, although Squeeze was working very well. Sorry, Jessie. I am not aware of those idioms as I am running always sid sighhhh. > > > Please notice, that the maintainers don't support stable anymore. > > And we won't patch any file just for solving your individual > > problem. Only in the case of needed security updates or backport > > issues... > Haven't I/we established that my problem is a configuration > issue? My speakers are what they've always been; my > hardware, three weeks old, works fine when booted from a > M$ DVD. So I am hoping that advice from experts will > help me to get as good sound results with Wheezy as I > had with Squeeze. First we have to find out whether pulsaudio or ALSA is crackling. Second you should be adviced to upgrade to drivers and software which are maintained. Elimar -- Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
