Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 11:38 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2011 11:18:47 Sam Leon wrote:
> > I honestly don't know how in the world my sound even works. I don't have
> > pulseaudio or jack or any other daemons installed:
>
> ALSA is sufficient in many desktop situations. PulsaAudio has some nice stuff
> for sound over a network. Jack is good for low-latency effect chains. ALSA
> might also have problems if the hardware doesn't support multiplexing and dmix
> or dsnoop are not on by default.
We have been having mostly good results with PulseAudio. It is
essential for us because of the networked sound which we use for our
X2Go (www.x2go.org) desktops - John
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