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6:58 p.m.
KMix seems to default to that, but seems to have no control over audio when
it does. If I select "HDA Intel", all is well.
What is PulseAudio and if I don't need it can I get rid of it?
Peter
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2 Nov
2 Nov
7:07 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] PulseAudio?
On 2 November 2011 14:58, Peter Laws <plaws(a)ou.edu> wrote:
KMix seems to default to that, but seems to have no
control over audio
when it does. If I select "HDA Intel", all is well.
What is PulseAudio and if I don't need it can I get rid of it?
Peter
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National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
plaws(a)ou.edu
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Pulse audio is a current generation sound server for linux. It sits on top
of ALSA and has certain features one might like. Do you need it? No, you
don't NEED it. it is quite nice when it works though.
8:55 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] PulseAudio?
On 11/02/11 14:07, Calvin Morrison wrote:
On 2 November 2011 14:58, Peter Laws <plaws(a)ou.edu <mailto:plaws@ou.edu>>
wrote:
What is PulseAudio and if I don't need it can
I get rid of it?
Pulse audio is a current generation sound server for linux. It sits on top
of ALSA and has certain features one might like. Do you need it? No, you
don't NEED it. it is quite nice when it works though.
I'm not sure that it does, though. In KMix, with Pulse Audio selected, I
see exactly one slider ("Master") on the Output tab and one slider
("Capture") on the Input tab.
When I select "HDA Intel", I get 12 slieders on Output, 5 under Input and a
tab called Switches that has a bunch of stuff.
What constitutes "when it works" with Pulse Audio? I'm thinking that this
isn't it. :-)
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10:38 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] PulseAudio?
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 15:55 -0500, Peter Laws wrote:
On 11/02/11 14:07, Calvin Morrison wrote:
Pulseaudio has had some very rough edges but it is maturing nicely. It
offers very powerful features such as dynamically selecting sound
devices per application, setting volume per application, and even
creative fancy things like automatically muting all other applications
when your soft phone rings and is active.
To get the most out of it, you may want to use pulseaudio's native
tools. I do not recall the packages or even the correct names (names
such as paman, padevchooser come to mind). I suppose one could do an
apt-cache search pulseaudio - John
On 2 November 2011 14:58, Peter Laws <plaws(a)ou.edu <mailto:plaws@ou.edu>>
wrote:
What is PulseAudio and if I don't need it
can I get rid of it?
Pulse audio is a current generation sound server for linux. It sits on top
of ALSA and has certain features one might like. Do you need it? No, you
don't NEED it. it is quite nice when it works though.
I'm not sure that it does, though. In KMix, with Pulse Audio selected, I
see exactly one slider ("Master") on the Output tab and one slider
("Capture") on the Input tab.
When I select "HDA Intel", I get 12 slieders on Output, 5 under Input and a
tab called Switches that has a bunch of stuff.
What constitutes "when it works" with Pulse Audio? I'm thinking that this
isn't it. :-)
3 Nov
3 Nov
2:56 a.m.
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03.11.2011 00:55, Peter Laws wrote:
I'm not sure that it does, though. In KMix, with
Pulse Audio selected, I
see exactly one slider ("Master") on the Output tab and one slider
("Capture") on the Input tab.
When I select "HDA Intel", I get 12 slieders on Output, 5 under Input and a
tab called Switches that has a bunch of stuff.
What constitutes "when it works" with Pulse Audio? I'm thinking that this
isn't it. :-)
Peter, you should Google about what is Pulse Audio, who is Lennart Poettering
and why a lot of linux users all over the world don't like PA and are a bit
skeptical about switch from the Upstart to the systemd if you're really want
to get familiar with PulseAudio sound server.
As for PA, it is really pretty nice daemon to use in case you'd be
exceptionally lucky not to hit any of the bugs in it and related environment.
To correctly control sound volumes on PA-enabled system one would need to use
PA-enabled mixer (KMix is not - yet?). I've seen pretty nice implementations
of PA mixers with decent GUI but they all were using Gtk2. Don't know if
there's something of such kind available based on Qt (especially if we limit
ourselves with Qt3).
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10 Nov
10 Nov
1:50 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] PulseAudio?
On 2 Nov 2011, Peter Laws stated:
I'm not sure that it does, though. In KMix, with
Pulse Audio selected,
I see exactly one slider ("Master") on the Output tab and one slider
("Capture") on the Input tab.
Yep. With PulseAudio, capture and output volume levels are controlled on
a per-application basis, and globally (which is the single volume
control you're looking at there). So you can say "I want my phone
application to be three times as loud as Amarok" *and* "I want all
volumes to be increased because I've switched from headphones to weedy
speakers". (As far as I know Trinity has no mechanism to control
per-application volumes, unlike KDE4, but the Gtk pavucontrol program
works fine.)
What you don't get are the dozens of confusing volume controls with
confusing names that modern sound cards provide, half of which typically
aren't hooked up to anything at all and 90% of the rest of which are
hooked up to inputs or outputs that you don't have anything plugged
into.
I don't really see this as a downside.
What constitutes "when it works" with Pulse
Audio? I'm thinking that
this isn't it. :-)
Working as designed. :)
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