On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:30:11PM -0800, Nathan Coulson wrote: > noted that PulseAudio was in BLFS, and I was curious if anyone's > experimented with a pulseaudio system. > I played with it a little the other night - got nowhere (builds, but no sound cards available). Also, starting pulseaudio, it seems to eventually die. This is as a test add-on for a completed system, so I guess the alsa part should be workable but everything else probably not. Unfortunately, all the HOWTO guides I've found so far lack detail for those of us who build from source.
> > I imagine, just like my experiments with KDE4, I'll find it has little > benefit for my use. Also worried about the extra bloat it'll add to > my system. > My only interest in this is to find a graphical volume control - I used to use kmix from kde3, which is defunct [ trinity would be excessive bloat for just a volume control, and anyway I'm not going to use cmake again :) ]. Latterly, I've been using gnome-media which is also now defunct. The non-gnome volume control for pulse, pavucontrol, brings its own dependencies. My first look suggested it needs a string of -mm gnome packages, like brasero, and therefore probably a chunk of the base gnome packages. I also note that the current version of pulse (1.1) needs json-c, and ConsoleKit is a runtime dependency, so I suspect the bloat will turn out to be high. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
