Re: pulseaudio related problems....
On 02/15/2014 08:59 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:58:05AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
>>> I think most people simply don't configure PulseAudio correctly. They
>>> have the assumption that sound cards are still simple devices with one
>>> input jack and one output jack and any application using it just has to
>>> find the sound card and output its audio signal.
>
>> If any configuration is required, that is a bug in pulseaudio.
>
> I'll agree with that. Audio really should just work unless the hardware
> configuration is particularly strange.
So, if your computer has several sounds cards - which is the case when
you have both a sound card and HDMI audio - how is PulseAudio supposed
to know which sound card to use? This is in no way different to plain
ALSA.
FWIW, sound works in 99% of the cases right after a fresh install.
Problems like the one described by Christian usually occur on systems
which have been undergone several configuration changes and upgrades,
i.e. old systems.
Adrian
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