Hi Raffaele, Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Raffaele Morelli: > 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...) […] > 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.
Is there an howto, is it easy to setup, what advantages does it have over ALSA + dmix and can I have Amarok playing in one KDE session while using another KDE session for work? Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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/201207191215.31388.mar...@lichtvoll.de
