2012/7/18 Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> > I need an opinion here. I had a 5 year old, lovingly upgraded > workstation with 32-bit sid up until I upgraded my hardware. I did a > nuke and pave and reinstalled amd64 sid. > > Sometime along the line, pulseaudio was installed, which broke sound > on the old setup. Through my reading, it appeared that pulse behaved > better when installed with a clean install. (the old one was about 5 > years old.) > > 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...) > > Opinions and experiences requested and welcome. > > Thanks, > --b > > Have a try with ALSA+Jack (qjackctl gui) and use vlc phonon backend for KDE4 (gstreamer backend really sucks IMHO).
If you plan to use non-alsa compliant applications some tweaks may be needed but it's worth trying. -- No need to remove PA, just stop it. -- 0.02€ regards -raffaele -- *L'unica speranza di catarsi, ammesso che ne esista una, resta affidata all'istinto di ribellione, alla rivolta non isterilita in progetti, alla protesta violenta e viscerale. (V. Evangelisti) *
