On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:25:24 +0200 Arno Schuring <aelschur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:37:37 -0700 > > From: bri...@aracnet.com > > > [..snip list of PA inadequacies..] > > > > so soliciting opinions on whether or not getting rid of pulse audio is a > > good idea. > > It's a good thing you're asking for opinions, because that's what > you're gonna get. A lot of it, probably ;) uh. honestly. i had no idea this was a hot-button. I was just wondering if I _really_ needed it. My problem is simple. When the laptop comes up from suspend, it selects the laptop speakers instead of the speakers which i have very specifically set up as default in default.pa. i find it very difficult to figure out how to do anything in pulse audio. so i thought- if i don't really need it, i'll be all set, right. well- probably not, better ask for some opinions. however the fact that i have two possible "sinks" makes me think it might be just as much trouble to get rid of it as to figure out why it doesn't do what it should. > > It can be a good idea, or it may cause your hair to fall out or turn > gray. When I ditched pulseaudio, my idle system load average (as > reported through uptime) dropped from 0.7 to 0.03, which was > vindication enough for me. i don't seem to have any issues like that. strictly a suspend/resume problem. a suspend/resume that i've seen in mailing lists going at least 5 years back and nobody every seems to know how to fix it. > > If you're running Gnome, ditchting pulseaudio is simply not possible. > Not sure about other full-featured DEs, I think at least KDE still > allows you to use alsa directly. Then there's the case that bluez5 also i'm using xfce but i could go back to openbox in a flash if i needed to. ah well- sounds like a rock and a hard place. Brian
