On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM, draeath <draeath@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well... it is sorta broke.
>
> Pulse is filling the gap that newer MS (maybe mac?) is creating with their
> new mixers.
>
> Besides, who was really happy with esd or arts? I never was. The pulseaudio
> esd-compat system works for me most of the time.
>
> It's new. Give it some time. If anything, throwing it out there this early
> is good, it encourages issues to get fixed.
>
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:13 pm, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>
>> 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...
>>
>>
My problem is not trying new stuff I do it all the time, but I would
like to know
that there are issues and some work around info. I am lucky I can ask questions
here, but not all people are in such a position. I would say that they should
have a published work around because these things are what cause people to
leave a product, I have been using Suse so long that I am used to the normal
things they do, but when you run into several things that do not work and it
is due to such a change, it is a problem. I see a message that is flashed on
the screen when it all first fires up and now I know what it is, and it has to
do with Pulseaudio not starting up right. I will have to go in and see what is
causing it, but that is probably the reason for the whole thing.
Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT --
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."
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