[arch-general] Pulseaudio disabling auto-mute mode

2020-03-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm not sure how/why (or when it started) but pulseaudio is disabling auto-mute mode on my laptop. Normally when you plug in headphones, speakers get muted. However, every time PA starts up, it disables that auto-mute feature. (I then have to go into alsamixer and manually re-enable it.) No

[arch-general] pulseaudio

2016-01-11 Thread flow
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Re: [arch-general] pulseaudio, systemd --user and session problems

2015-10-21 Thread Dennis Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/21/2015 05:57 AM, Karsten Rode wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem I think is related to the startup of a systemd > user session. I noticed lately that pulseaudio does not > automatically start, although I can start it form the command line >

Re: [arch-general] pulseaudio, systemd --user and session problems

2015-10-21 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 21 October 2015 at 14:57, Karsten Rode wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem I think is related to the startup of a systemd user > session. I noticed lately that pulseaudio does not automatically start, > although I can start it form the command line later with > > $ pulseaudio --start > > After

[arch-general] pulseaudio, systemd --user and session problems

2015-10-21 Thread Karsten Rode
Hi, I have a problem I think is related to the startup of a systemd user session. I noticed lately that pulseaudio does not automatically start, although I can start it form the command line later with $ pulseaudio --start After digging around I found that pulseaudio should be started by the s

[arch-general] pulseaudio 6.99 in [testing], daemon can't start, chokes on module-native-protocol-unix

2015-09-20 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Anyone else seeing this? My default.pa is stock (it wasn't before, but I reverted the minor changes and no change in behaviour), and the daemon just won't start. If I comment out module-native-protocol-unix it will, but of course it's not usable that way. Reported it as a bug on freedesktop[1], b

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio 5.1 Setup echoes Front Speakers to Rear speakers

2014-03-18 Thread Mark Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/18/2014 04:49 AM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Mark Lee > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 03/17/2014 07:54 PM, Adriano Moura wrote: >>> Does the same happens with speaker-test? (in

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio 5.1 Setup echoes Front Speakers to Rear speakers

2014-03-18 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 03/17/2014 07:54 PM, Adriano Moura wrote: >> Does the same happens with speaker-test? (included in alsa-utils) >> Try running it like this: >> speaker-test -c 6 Try with "speaker-test -c 6

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio 5.1 Setup echoes Front Speakers to Rear speakers

2014-03-17 Thread Mark Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/17/2014 07:54 PM, Adriano Moura wrote: > Does the same happens with speaker-test? (included in alsa-utils) > Try running it like this: > speaker-test -c 6 > > > 2014-03-17 2:40 GMT-03:00 Kyle Terrien : > >> On 03/16/2014 10:21 PM, Kyle Terri

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio 5.1 Setup echoes Front Speakers to Rear speakers

2014-03-17 Thread Adriano Moura
Does the same happens with speaker-test? (included in alsa-utils) Try running it like this: speaker-test -c 6 2014-03-17 2:40 GMT-03:00 Kyle Terrien : > On 03/16/2014 10:21 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote: > > Are you using PulseAudio? > > D'oh! I noticed the subject line said "Pulseaudio" right after se

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio 5.1 Setup echoes Front Speakers to Rear speakers

2014-03-16 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 03/16/2014 10:21 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote: > Are you using PulseAudio? D'oh! I noticed the subject line said "Pulseaudio" right after sending my message. Sorry for the stupid question. --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio 5.1 Setup echoes Front Speakers to Rear speakers

2014-03-16 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 03/16/2014 09:59 PM, Mark Lee wrote: > Salutations, > > I recently hooked up a 5.1 surround sound receiver to my Haswell setup > via HDMI. I used the sound manager in gnome to set the system to output > 5.1 surround sound. However, while testing each individual speaker using > the gnome sound s

[arch-general] Pulseaudio 5.1 Setup echoes Front Speakers to Rear speakers

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Salutations, I recently hooked up a 5.1 surround sound receiver to my Haswell setup via HDMI. I used the sound manager in gnome to set the system to output 5.1 surround sound. However, while testing each individual speaker using the gnome sound sett

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-20 Thread Florian Pritz
On 19.11.2012 08:08, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio >> output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the following:- >> >> Nov 19 14:45 : output: Failed to enable "MPD Pulse Output" [

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Zeke Sulastin wrote: > > > > Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to stop blocking my audio for vlc and > > mplayer until I fixed this group membership problem. > > > If you're logging in with systemd, your user should definitely not be in > the 'audio' group and vlc/mplayer sh

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 22:45 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Is > the > user > that's > supposed > to > be > able > to > use > mpd > in > the > audio > group? > > If > not, > it > may > help > to > add > the > user > to > audio. > > Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to st

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-19 Thread Zeke Sulastin
> > Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to stop blocking my audio for vlc and > mplayer until I fixed this group membership problem. If you're logging in with systemd, your user should definitely not be in the 'audio' group and vlc/mplayer should be very much able to connect to Pulse unless you hav

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-19 Thread Raghavendra D Prabhu
Hi, * On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:41:52AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Nov 19, 2012 10:27 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > > Hi, P

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > On Nov 19, 2012 10:27 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens > >wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng > > wrote: > > > > > Hi

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-19 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Nov 19, 2012 10:27 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens >wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng > wrote: > > > > Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now m

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-19 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Nov 19, 2012 10:27 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > > Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio > > > output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the follow

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-19 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio > > output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the following:- > > > > Nov 19 14:45 : output: Failed to enable "MP

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-18 Thread Jan Steffens
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio > output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the following:- > > Nov 19 14:45 : output: Failed to enable "MPD Pulse Output" [pulse]: > pa_context_connect() has failed: Conn

[arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-18 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the following:- Nov 19 14:45 : output: Failed to enable "MPD Pulse Output" [pulse]: pa_context_connect() has failed: Connection refused Nov 19 14:45 : player_thread: problems openin

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 20:25 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 01:14:47PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > > PA is a great consumer thing, and that's exactly what we need. > > PA is indeed a great consumer thing, and it may be what > you need. It is definitely not what some o

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:37:14 -0600 schrieb C Anthony Risinger : > is this roughly message you want to send? No, this is not the message, and I guess you totally misunderstood me. The problem is that PulseAudio is not working with every sound and audio card, but users are forced to install it as

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:14:47 -0600 schrieb Leonid Isaev : > PA is a great consumer thing, and that's exactly what we need. That may be exactly what you need, but not what we need. Otherwise we all could stick with Windows. You can read your e-mails and write some letters with Windows. So why usin

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 01:14:47PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > PA is a great consumer thing, and that's exactly what we need. PA is indeed a great consumer thing, and it may be what you need. It is definitely not what some others need. > Because noone cares about "pro" audio solutions You me

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:29:28 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 13:14 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > Please please please not again!!! > > > > PA is a great consumer thing, and that's exactly what we need. Because > > noone cares about "pro" audio solutions which are a nightmare t

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Ben Tartsa
Thanks. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 13:14 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > Please please please not again!!! > > > > PA is a great consumer thing, and that's exactly what we need. Because > noone > > cares about "pro" audio solutions which are a nig

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 13:14 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > Please please please not again!!! > > > > PA is a great consumer thing, and that's exactly what we need. Because > noone > > cares about "pro" audio solutions which are a nightmare to

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 13:14 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > Please please please not again!!! > > PA is a great consumer thing, and that's exactly what we need. Because noone > cares about "pro" audio solutions which are a nightmare to configure. > > PA goes far beyond you KDE/gnome to embedded syst

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 12:37 -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > dear Lennart and co., > > make sure that your software is 100% optional and free of dependencies > in either direction. > > signed, > > Your Friends in the Community Dear my Friends in the Community, PA already is optional. Please

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:24:07 +0100 Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:05:25 + > schrieb Fons Adriaensen : > > > PA is for 'consumer' use, its scope ends at ITU 5.1 or so. > > It doesn't support any serious multichannel card (like the > > the comlete RME series, up to 64+64 channels)

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > If Lennart would either fix all those issues in PulseAudio and systemd, > so that they would really work for everybody and would really bring > advantages for everybody or at least no disadvantages, or if his > software would just be optiona

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:34:32 + schrieb Fons Adriaensen : > It's part of a more general trend, that of dependencies on > specific desktop junk trickling down into even basic system > components and plain apps. And that's a problem. This should be changed again. > And it's staring to affect Ar

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:22:05 +0100 schrieb Stefan Wilkens : > Does this really need to be rehashed yet again? This isn't arch > related yet these PA back and forths keeps popping up in the mailboxes > of all the registered people looking for arch-related content. > > I didn't follow the original

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 06:24:07PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > If PulseAudio was generally only optional and if its developers > wouldn't try to declare it as a standard, I just wouldn't care. It's part of a more general trend, that of dependencies on specific desktop junk trickling down into ev

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:05:25 + schrieb Fons Adriaensen : > PA is for 'consumer' use, its scope ends at ITU 5.1 or so. > It doesn't support any serious multichannel card (like the > the comlete RME series, up to 64+64 channels). Users of such > cards don't need or want PA, so it's really not a

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Stefan Wilkens
2012/1/28 Heiko Baums : > Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:29:33 +0100 > schrieb Ralf Mardorf : > >> The majority of Linux users on non-audio Linux mailing lists praise >> PA, ... > > And the most computer users use Windows. So what's the point? That > doesn't mean that Windows is better than Linux or that W

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio again (was: change in mount behaviour?)

2012-01-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:29:33 +0100 schrieb Ralf Mardorf : > The majority of Linux users on non-audio Linux mailing lists praise > PA, ... And the most computer users use Windows. So what's the point? That doesn't mean that Windows is better than Linux or that Windows works perfectly. I'm sure th

Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09-04-2011 14:47, Matthew Monaco wrote: > Hmm, I tried that, didn't seem to help. In fact it's super frustrating > now because VLC is back to use ~16% CPU again no matter what resample > method I use and what audio output option I choose. Are you sure you have set vlc to output to pulse directl

Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Axel 'the C.L.A.' Müller
On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:47:16 -0400 Matthew Monaco wrote: > On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: > > On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > > >> PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of > >> course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR > >

Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Sander Jansen
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Sander Jansen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote: >> On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: >>> >>> On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >>> PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of course, if you're

Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Sander Jansen
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote: > On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: >> >> On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> >>> PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of >>> course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR >>> (hav

Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR (haven't had this problem for ages), CPU usage from PA is basically caused by

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-12-13 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le mercredi 8 à 0:55, Brendan Long a écrit : > Have you seen the PulseAudio volume control applet (for Gnome)? My > favorite two parts are being able to control sound for each > application separately (Pidgin doesn't need to be as loud as Banshee), > and being able to switch output while things are

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-12-07 Thread Brendan Long
On 12/01/2010 08:09 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: since i recently blew up my computer "accidentally on purpose"[1]... i decided to try this since i said i would and so many others to had success. works perfectly under a fresh install, e17 desktop; nice w3rk! i'm liking it quite a bit... sharin

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-12-02 Thread Simon Gomizelj
Of course. My observation was meant to go with the comment above on preventing pulseaudio from starting if it is installed by deleting the dbus activation files. Just pointing out that an application may, potentially, still start it.

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-12-02 Thread Damjan
On 02.12.2010 16:23, Simon Gomizelj wrote: From my limited experience with pulseaudio on a machine without X, it seems that anything that has native pulse support in it will automatically start pulse on demand anyways. on ArchLinux if you don't install the pulseaudio package, there wont be an

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-12-02 Thread Simon Gomizelj
>From my limited experience with pulseaudio on a machine without X, it seems that anything that has native pulse support in it will automatically start pulse on demand anyways. 2010/12/1 Ng Oon-Ee > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:09 -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-12-01 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:09 -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: > >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if pulseaudio is installed, I believe you > >> should be able to prevent it from startin

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-12-01 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if pulseaudio is installed, I believe you >> should be able to prevent it from starting by removing the dbus >> activation files: >> >> etc/xdg/ >> etc/xdg

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-29 Thread Jan Steffens
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but if pulseaudio is installed, I believe you > should be able to prevent it from starting by removing the dbus > activation files: > > etc/xdg/ > etc/xdg/autostart/ > etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop > etc/xd

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-29 Thread Sander Jansen
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no >> feedback on this. >> >> This either means it works well, or nobody uses it. >> >> So I'm asking for it now, especially from GNOME and KDE users running >> PulseAudio.

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-29 Thread Ulf Winkelvos
On 29.11.2010 10:21, Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 10:09 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: I guess I am one of those pulse-haters. I don't care whether it's in [extra], some other official repo or not since I simply don't need it. But now mplayer pulls in libpulse, and I have no idea

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-29 Thread Sebastian Rust
On 28.11.2010 11:47, Χρήστος Κώτσαρης wrote: > Regarding phonon being dropped, after some googling it seems i was mistaken, > what i had read was that Qt framework is dropping phonon, not KDE. But still, > i believe it would be sane to drop phonon in KDE too and replace it with > Pulseaudio, it

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-29 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 13:21 +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no > > feedback on this. > > > > This either means it works well, or nobody uses it. > > > > So I'm asking for it now, especially from GNOME and KDE users running > > Puls

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-29 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no > feedback on this. > > This either means it works well, or nobody uses it. > > So I'm asking for it now, especially from GNOME and KDE users running > PulseAudio. Great work Jan, it seems your updates have eliminated all the *-pu

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-29 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> The benefit is that Flash will not f**k and lock your sound card. > > These problems are solved since years. I even made a test. Playing two > flash videos, playing music through mplayer with alsa and starting an > old game which uses oss. All this works just fine with plain alsa. No, I ment th

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-29 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 29 November 2010 09:21:12 Jan de Groot wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 10:09 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > I guess I am one of those pulse-haters. I don't care whether it's in > > [extra], some other official repo or not since I simply don't need it. > > But now mplayer pulls in lib

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Jan de Groot's message of 2010-11-29 10:21:12 +0100: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 10:09 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > I guess I am one of those pulse-haters. I don't care whether it's in > > [extra], some other official repo or not since I simply don't need it. > > But now mplayer p

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-29 Thread Casey Peter
On 11/28/10 23:19, Christos Kotsaris wrote: Well Morgan Gangwere since all of us Arch users understand this greatly important need to play a 13 year game on an 11 year old machine, we should rollback all changes and send pulseaudio in AUR where it belongs. I mean, we can't leave behind every ch

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-29 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 17:25 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Good luck getting pulse-haters to understand that a 1.14 MB package > isn't going to kill their system though. > > Thanks JGC for your work on this. I didn't think it was possible to > have > such choice, and it looks like you've jumped through

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-29 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 10:21 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 10:09 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > I guess I am one of those pulse-haters. I don't care whether it's in > > [extra], some other official repo or not since I simply don't need it. > > But now mplayer pulls in libp

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-29 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 10:09 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > I guess I am one of those pulse-haters. I don't care whether it's in > [extra], some other official repo or not since I simply don't need it. > But now mplayer pulls in libpulse, and I have no idea which consequences > this could have.

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from christos.kotsaris's message of 2010-11-29 08:05:40 +0100: > On a more serious mode now: > > As the devs themselves said, pulseaudio is optional, unless you are using > GNOME, which requires Pulseaudio upstream. There is nothing clearer than > that. > Go blame GNOME developers. >

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-29 Thread Jan Steffens
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > These problems are solved since years. I even made a test. Playing two > flash videos, playing music through mplayer with alsa and starting an > old game which uses oss. All this works just fine with plain alsa. > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, http

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:27:47 +0100, Damjan wrote: >>> I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no >>> feedback on this. >>> >>> This either means it works well, or nobody uses it. >>> >>> So I'm asking for it now, especially from GNOME and KDE users running >>> PulseAudio. >>

[arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-28 Thread Χρήστος Κώτσαρης
On a more serious mode now: As the devs themselves said, pulseaudio is optional, unless you are using GNOME, which requires Pulseaudio upstream. There is nothing clearer than that. Go blame GNOME developers. There is something i noticed. Morgan Gandwere is a Debian convert... That explains a l

[arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-28 Thread Christos Kotsaris
Well Morgan Gangwere since all of us Arch users understand this greatly important need to play a 13 year game on an 11 year old machine, we should rollback all changes and send pulseaudio in AUR where it belongs. I mean, we can't leave behind every cheap computer user who can't be bothered to

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread fons
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 06:29:56PM -0600, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 01:15 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 06:44:10PM -0500, Simon Gomizelj wrote: > > > > > Pulseaudio has been buggy because in many cases they have been the very > > > first people to

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Nov 28, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 01:15 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 06:44:10PM -0500, Simon Gomizelj wrote: >> >>> Pulseaudio has been buggy because in many cases they have been the >>> very >>> first people to ever make use

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 01:15 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 06:44:10PM -0500, Simon Gomizelj wrote: > > > Pulseaudio has been buggy because in many cases they have been the very > > first people to ever make use of some of the more esoteric parts of alsa. > > Those par

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread fons
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 06:44:10PM -0500, Simon Gomizelj wrote: > Pulseaudio has been buggy because in many cases they have been the very > first people to ever make use of some of the more esoteric parts of alsa. > Those parts also lacked proper documentation and many drivers didn't even > bother

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Simon Gomizelj
Pulseaudio did expose a lot of bugs in alsa that needed to be fixed in alsa. IIRC they are attempting to move from scheduling sound with the soundcard's hardware interrupts to an entirely cpu based method. I can't remember exactly what the technique is, but it allows for better latency control, bet

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-11-28 17:19:11 +0100: > > I'll take both your words on it. Its worth noting that Pulseaudio > automatically corks when JACK wants a sound-device (jack2 that is, not > jack1). Running phonon atop pulseaudio wouldn't make sense if every app > uses phonon. Du

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Mauro Santos
On 28-11-2010 16:21, Yaro Kasear wrote: > ... if they were to actually test this, > would FLOOD this entire discussion with problems that would make the > Arch devs reconsider this decision. So you are making the assumption that using pulse still causes the same problems it used to cause before (o

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 16:24 +, Nathan Wayde wrote: > > > > It's probably because the masses of people who already know Pulse Audio > > will break their sound aren't bothering to try it. I have a whole IRC > > channel filled with people who, if they were to actually test this, > > would FLOOD th

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 11/28/2010 06:18 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 00:15 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: On 29 November 2010 00:08, Yaro Kasear wrote: Once again, I say PA is far from the kind of quality I'd expect from a package in [extra], and I'm surprised the Arch devs are even considering it, espe

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Nathan Wayde
It's probably because the masses of people who already know Pulse Audio will break their sound aren't bothering to try it. I have a whole IRC channel filled with people who, if they were to actually test this, would FLOOD this entire discussion with problems that would make the Arch devs reconsid

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 00:19 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 17:49 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > > On 28 November 2010 11:24, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 11:17 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > >> On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 18:21 -0600, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > >> > I don't see K

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 17:49 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 28 November 2010 11:24, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 11:17 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > >> On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 18:21 -0600, Yaro Kasear wrote: > >> > I don't see KDE upstream doing that. They have Phonon. What's more, most >

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 00:15 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 29 November 2010 00:08, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > Once again, I say PA is far from the kind of quality I'd expect from a > > package in [extra], and I'm surprised the Arch devs are even considering > > it, especially in light of the fact that

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Ray Rashif
On 29 November 2010 00:08, Yaro Kasear wrote: > Once again, I say PA is far from the kind of quality I'd expect from a > package in [extra], and I'm surprised the Arch devs are even considering > it, especially in light of the fact that there's far more stable and > useful packages in [community]

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 12:11 +0200, Χρήστος Κώτσαρης wrote: > I believe this was the right choice. Pulseaudio should be in extra and all > applications build with pulse support. Except for the fact that Pulse Audio is an incredible REGRESSION in Linux sound and causes far more problems than it sol

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 28 November 2010 12:48:38 Jan Steffens wrote: > Note that as far as I know, phonon is an abstraction API with similar > functionality like GStreamer, not PulseAudio. Yes indeed, that's my understanding too. Anyway, thanks Jan - I can report that I'm using KDE, VLC etc. without pulse an

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Jan Steffens
2010/11/28 Χρήστος Κώτσαρης : > Regarding phonon being dropped, after some googling it seems i was mistaken, > what i had read was that Qt framework is dropping phonon, not KDE. But still, > i believe it would be sane to drop phonon in KDE too and replace it with > Pulseaudio, it is the best choice

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Χρήστος Κώτσαρης
Regarding phonon being dropped, after some googling it seems i was mistaken, what i had read was that Qt framework is dropping phonon, not KDE. But still, i believe it would be sane to drop phonon in KDE too and replace it with Pulseaudio, it is the best choice. No need for 2 sound servers when

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Χρήστος Κώτσαρης
I believe this was the right choice. Pulseaudio should be in extra and all applications build with pulse support. Regarding phonon, i believe KDE intends to drop it at some point, not sure were i read that. I remember reading something about KDE 5 not including phonon, but it may be FUD. Anyone

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Ray Rashif
On 28 November 2010 11:24, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 11:17 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 18:21 -0600, Yaro Kasear wrote: >> > On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 08:18 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> > > Just don't use Gnome. Upstream is going to make Pulseaudio default. KDE >> >

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 11:17 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 18:21 -0600, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 08:18 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > Just don't use Gnome. Upstream is going to make Pulseaudio default. KDE > > > as well, maybe. > > > > > I don't see KDE upstream

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 18:21 -0600, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 08:18 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > Just don't use Gnome. Upstream is going to make Pulseaudio default. KDE > > as well, maybe. > > > I don't see KDE upstream doing that. They have Phonon. What's more, most > KDE apps toda

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread C Anthony Risinger
2010/11/27 Ng Oon-Ee : > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 13:01 -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Philipp Überbacher >> > Gnome isn't Linux, Gnome is primarily a DAU-top. I don't see why gnome >> > should govern the direction of every distribution. Yes, ubuntu decided >> > t

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Jan Steffens
2010/11/28 Ng Oon-Ee : > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 19:34 -0200, Bernardo Barros wrote: >> My experience is that pulseaudio sometimes works for simple desktop audio. >> Any serious work with audio it just cause (or potentially cause) problems... >> (again, just my experience) > > if (serious audio work)

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 19:34 -0200, Bernardo Barros wrote: > My experience is that pulseaudio sometimes works for simple desktop audio. > Any serious work with audio it just cause (or potentially cause) problems... > (again, just my experience) if (serious audio work); then pulseaudio -k; jackd

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 13:01 -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Philipp Überbacher > > Gnome isn't Linux, Gnome is primarily a DAU-top. I don't see why gnome > > should govern the direction of every distribution. Yes, ubuntu decided > > that they want to follow and b

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 08:18 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 12:09 -0600, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > > > I stated it before, but I'll say it here, I don't think Pulse Audio is > > right for [extra]. Compiz is a lot more stable and still manages to stay > > in [community]. Pulse goes

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 12:09 -0600, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > I stated it before, but I'll say it here, I don't think Pulse Audio is > right for [extra]. Compiz is a lot more stable and still manages to stay > in [community]. Pulse goes down a lot and takes sound with it and it's > getting put in [ex

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Bernardo Barros
My experience is that pulseaudio sometimes works for simple desktop audio. Any serious work with audio it just cause (or potentially cause) problems... (again, just my experience)

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