28 Feb
2018
28 Feb
'18
9:33 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:08 AM, deloptes <deloptes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
... so pulseaudio is configured to "take over" ALSA, and to offer an
alternative ALSA interface.
what happens with alsamixer and alsamixergui? i
suspect you have a
loop on your hands where pulseaudio has taken control without your
consent or knowledge of the ALSA devices.
what do you mean? I installed pulse and let it take control. alsamixer works
just fine. When alsamixer is invoked without argument, it shows pulseaudio
as audiocard. When I run it with -c 0 it shows the audiocard as when
pulse
was not installed
ok yes, so that tells us that pulseaudio is trying to "take over"
ALSA, then offer a 2nd ALSA "gateway" interface.
when killing PA, kmix also goes at 100% CPU - need to
quit kmix. When I
press volume key kmix starts again
interesting.
Well, I appreciate your opinion,
... experience. pulseaudio is involved in most of the audio f***-ups
i've been forced to deal with.
but there must be a solution, so that kmix
does not go 100% CPU.
it's the first time i've ever heard of kmix doing that... but then i
never ran it with pulseaudio.
what happens if you run it *without* pulseaudio? is it fine then?
also, have you ever installed jackd (and the jackd pulseaudio
plugin). i now run with jackd->pulseaudio because i have a MIDI
application that i occasionally run... but also it turns out that
applications are a bit more stable going through jackd.
the advantage is that f****g pulseaudio gets the f*** off the damn
ALSA interface (because it detects that jackd is running and managing
it), and jackd does a hell of a lot better job of directing audio
through to ALSA.
l.