Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:25:24 +0200
Arno Schuring <aelschuring@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> > Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:37:37 -0700
> > From: briand@aracnet.com
> >
> [..snip list of PA inadequacies..]
> >
> > so soliciting opinions on whether or not getting rid of pulse audio is a good idea.
> 
> It's a good thing you're asking for opinions, because that's what
> you're gonna get. A lot of it, probably ;)

uh. honestly. i had no idea this was a hot-button.

I was just wondering if I _really_ needed it.

My problem is simple.  When the laptop comes up from suspend, it selects the laptop speakers instead of the speakers which i have very specifically set up as default in default.pa.

i find it very difficult to figure out how to do anything in pulse audio.

so i thought- if i don't really need it, i'll be all set, right. well- probably not, better ask for some opinions.

however the fact that i have two possible "sinks" makes me think it might be just as much trouble to get rid of it as to figure out why it  doesn't do what it should.

> 
> It can be a good idea, or it may cause your hair to fall out or turn
> gray. When I ditched pulseaudio, my idle system load average (as
> reported through uptime) dropped from 0.7 to 0.03, which was
> vindication enough for me.

i don't seem to have any issues like that. strictly a suspend/resume problem.  a suspend/resume that i've seen in mailing lists going at least 5 years back and nobody every seems to know how to fix it.

> 
> If you're running Gnome, ditchting pulseaudio is simply not possible.
> Not sure about other full-featured DEs, I think at least KDE still
> allows you to use alsa directly. Then there's the case that bluez5 also

i'm using xfce but i could go back to openbox in a flash if i needed to.

ah well- sounds like a rock and a hard place.

Brian