Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

[Alan Ezust <alan.ezust@gmail.com>]

I use skype and pulseaudio in Debian Wheezy. I just recently started using pulseaudio and 
I like it, especially since I have 2 sound cards and I like to have System and Skype sounds go through my analog output while my music going through a digital output. 

What I have observed, however, is that sometimes pulseaudio just stops working, and when that happens
any other program that needs sound just freezes instead of making sounds.  It becomes a "cascading" effect of frozen apps that won't work even after restarting them.
It happens often when I receive an IM (which results in a system sound) while I am talking on Skype. 

I believe this is a bug in how Skype uses Pulse, or a bug in Pulse, but in either case,
there is an instability in this particular combination of software that forces me to either logout/login again to KDE, or to reboot. Restarting pulse doesn't do it for me.

I did not observe this instability  until I started using pulseaudio. If Skype uses Alsa directly, it seems to be more stable.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Shervin Emami <shervin.emami@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using the NVIDIA driver from Debian Stable, but since I have Optimus (both an Intel & NVIDIA GPU), it would be using the Intel driver for normal display, and I made it use Mesa as the default GL library for this reason. So maybe my problems are related to Optimus, I wouldn't be surprised :-( I work for NVIDIA and yet even I have numerous software & hardware troubles due to Optimus! I'll try using the latest NVIDIA driver, supposedly it has some Optimus support now so it doesn't need Bumblebee anymore.

Cheers,
Shervin Emami.
http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Facundo Aguilera <budinero@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Shervin Emami <shervin.emami@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm even using the Debian Stable packages for
> NVIDIA GPU and CUDA toolkit and OpenGL.
>

> ...

Are you using the nvidia driver or nouveau? I had similar problems
with nouveau and desktop effects enabled.

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