On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:57:58 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > (...) > >> So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a >> really hard time with it. I am running sid with kde 4.x, and, to give >> one example (there are several I have noticed), when playing music with >> Amarok, every time a screen issue happens (e.g. when the screen saver >> kicks in, or when the track changes and Amarok kicks up a dialog with >> the name/artist of the next track, the sound goes wonky and sounds like >> it is underwater. Sometimes this will clear up on its own after a few >> minutes, but other times it doesn't or I want it fixed >> immediately...Then I can slide the master volume down and back up in >> kmix (sometimes it takes twice). Very frustrating. >> >> Now, I did a little research a couple of weeks ago, and found on the >> Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/) that they recommend >> installing several extra pulse-related packages. Is it worth it? Will it >> fix my problems? Or is it not worth the effort and should I just nuke >> pulse from orbit? (It's the only way to be sure...) > > Ask yourself if you really need PA in your system.
I'm just as happy using straight alsa and building a dummy package. However, two things that come to mind are a) what happens when/if pa becomes the standard and b) are there any interesting things I can do with it (e.g. multiplexing/balancing sound). If I can do b) without PA, so much the better. I'm thinking worst case, jack, but that didn't have a lot of docs, last time I checked. > I'm very happy with the old ESD and still have not found a hard > requirement for using a different sound server although I know that PA > will be in my systems when I install wheezy but nothing I will do on > purpose. > > That said, I guess the integration of PA with KDE will be better with the > latest versions and Sid should be now at 4.8 thus troubles with PA should > be less. This is what I thought when I did the reinstall of Debian. However, it appears not to be the case. > Regarding your question of "keeping PA or not" I would give it a chance, > read the official docs¹ and if nothing helps to alleviate the cranky- > underwater sound and problems persist I would then reconsider my > decision. KDE users can be considered lucky if PA is not a hard > dependency for them :-) > > ¹http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Desktops/KDE Thanks, Camaleón. I will go read this. Right now, I'm leaning toward pulling PA and putting a dummy package in place. Again, being a future requirement is still a concern, since generally, my Debian installs have a life expectancy of 5-7 yrs. Thanks, --b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cakmzw+bjg78xtteaejb0vjtbkcxpe8pkqw5h9ua8kylhh_u...@mail.gmail.com
