Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:04:27PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:00:20PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is
> >> its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been successful in
> >> installing and running it, could you share your experience.
> >
> > I tried it some time ago and gave up in frustration, but
> > recently gave it another try. I was specifically trying to
> > solve the problem of USB audio: different apps seemed to have
> > different ways of dealing with this, so I couldn't just plug
> > in USB speakers and go, I had to do one thing for the system
> > as a whole, then a different thing in one sound program, then
> > another thing for blah blah blah.
> >
> > The PA installation and setup was a bit of a drag, though I
> > followed detailed instructions online. And now that it's
> > working, it's perfect; everything Just Works. There are a few
> > minor problems I'm having but on the whole I'm glad I did it.
> >
> > Jesse Sheidlower
>
> Having read what people posted, it appears that pulseaudio is on the
> right track. In this thread, only Paul has discouraged its use and
> Preston is having trouble (appears to be a hardware problem), and two
> others are having a ball of a time with pa.
>
> So if it works, it is wonderful. If it doesn't, it is a pain to get
> working. Moreover, it has networked sound. So I can play a movie on my
> media PC in my home lan over at my laptop -- if I understand pa correctly.
>
> Now if somebody can describe the steps which are fairly reliable to get
> it to work on a Debian machine, I might give it another shot in the not
> too distant future when I get some time.
The two documents I found to be exceptionally helpful (used
in combination) were an extensive Debian how-to at
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=12497
and PA's own docs at
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
Jesse Sheidlower
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