On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, draeath wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 6:30 pm, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>>>> IIRC Skype uses OSS, not native ALSA. Make sure you have OSS
>>>>> emulation
>>>>> enabled.
>>>>
>>>> Opps, where do I find OS emulation, should I start pulseaudio back up
>>>> and
>>>> then enable it??
>>>>
>>>> Not sure why they added the pulseaudio thing it always seemed like it
>>>> worked just fine before, never seemed to have to fool with it unless I
>>>> was trying to set up a particular input or something, but never seemed
>>>> to have much problem with audio..
>>>
>>> OK, I did a ps -AL and found 3 pulseaudio apps running, did a killall and
>>> now it all works. Cheee.... why break something that works???
>>>
>>> Skype now works
>>> VLC continues to work
>>> and the audio recorder now can play back files, I found that it
>>> would record it just would not play back.
>>>
>>> Looks like Pulseaudio does not want to play nice with every one
>>> else...
>>
>> Pulse is fine. The issue arises when something tries to use an ancient and
>> depreciated system like OSS...
>
> If the system works fine without it, why have it? Yeah, probably some folks
> have diesel-powered sound cards that need it, but not Chuck Hast.
>
> Also, killing it works fine _now_, but unless you (CH) want to do that every
> time you boot you need to stop it from being run.
>
> Did you (CH) try playing two sounds at once? That's where an onboard sound
> card failed for me (and was a big reason I went back to using an add-on
> card).
>
Yea, it is sort of like the old thing about if it ain't broke why fix
it?? I have
had rare problems with the audio, but I never had to pull things out by the
roots in order to fix it... Of course if this is becoming the common audio
system then Skype needs to fix their code...
Guess I will have to play with it and see what I can come up with. I went
in and looked at the pulse audio files that are on the system and there
are a bunch not sure which ones need to be removed...
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