Re: To pulse or not to pulse?
Hi Raffaele,
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Raffaele Morelli:
> 2012/7/18 Brad Alexander <storm16@gmail.com>
>
> > I need an opinion here. I had a 5 year old, lovingly upgraded
> > workstation with 32-bit sid up until I upgraded my hardware. I did a
> > nuke and pave and reinstalled amd64 sid.
> >
> > Sometime along the line, pulseaudio was installed, which broke sound
> > on the old setup. Through my reading, it appeared that pulse behaved
> > better when installed with a clean install. (the old one was about 5
> > years old.)
> >
> > So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having
> > a really hard time with it. I am running sid with kde 4.x, and, to
> > give one example (there are several I have noticed), when playing
> > music with Amarok, every time a screen issue happens (e.g. when the
> > screen saver kicks in, or when the track changes and Amarok kicks up
> > a dialog with the name/artist of the next track, the sound goes
> > wonky and sounds like it is underwater. Sometimes this will clear up
> > on its own after a few minutes, but other times it doesn't or I want
> > it fixed immediately...Then I can slide the master volume down and
> > back up in kmix (sometimes it takes twice). Very frustrating.
> >
> > Now, I did a little research a couple of weeks ago, and found on the
> > Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/) that they recommend
> > installing several extra pulse-related packages. Is it worth it? Will
> > it fix my problems? Or is it not worth the effort and should I just
> > nuke pulse from orbit? (It's the only way to be sure...)
[…]
> Have a try with ALSA+Jack (qjackctl gui) and use vlc phonon backend for
> KDE4 (gstreamer backend really sucks IMHO).
>
> If you plan to use non-alsa compliant applications some tweaks may be
> needed but it's worth trying.
Is there an howto, is it easy to setup, what advantages does it have over
ALSA + dmix and can I have Amarok playing in one KDE session while using
another KDE session for work?
Thanks,
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