Hi! On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]> wrote: > Would you recommend using pulseaudio? > > I still wonder whether I should try it.
I have switched to pulseaudio about 6 months ago and I do not regret it. KDE integration is still not the best but it has nice features. If you are willing to use the tools that come with it (pavucontrol etc.), than you can do nice things with it. My main reason for the switch was that I wanted to use bluetooth headphones. You can accomplish this with ALSA, but you have to edit system files, etc. With pulseaudio you just need to install the appropriate plugin and pair the headset (eg. using bluedevil). Kubuntu is also switching to pulseaudio from the soon to be released 10.10. On Debian the experience might not be the best without some manual setup. I had to install the libasound2-plugins for the pulseaudio plugin. Then create an .asoundrc to change the default alsa device to use this plugin. Without this all the non-pulseaudio capable programs would try to acquire the alsa devices directly which did not work too well with pulseaudio. Regards, Zsolt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
