I am going to clearly remark as much as possible for the benefit of anyone
who may find this page later. See my inline replies/comments.....
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 05:53, Darren Crotchett <deb...@crotchett.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Can you elaborate on what you mean by "it just needs to be setup
> correctly"?
> > I'm going to be working on this issue today. Before I install the
> > applications that Raffaele recommended, I want to give Pulseaudio one
> more
> > chance because I would rather figure out the problem than to circumvent
> it.
> > OTOH, I don't want to fight a losing battle either.
>
> So, I originally setup mine based on the PA wiki's "Perfect Setup".
> It is rather
> extensive and a lot of the stuff in there is from a time when there
> was less support
> for PA.
>
> Here are the essentials:
> Edit /etc/asound.conf (for all users) or ~/.asoundrc (per-user)
> I have only these two entries in mine:
>
Neither of these files existed. I didn't care about a per-user setting, so
I just created an /etc/asound.conf and added the recommended lines below.
>
> pcm.!default {
> type pulse
> }
> ctl.!default {
> type pulse
> }
>
>
> Make sure you are in the groups "audio", "pulse-access" and "pulse-rt"
>
I used vigr and vigr -s to edit the groups. My user was already in
"audio". I added it to "pulse-access" group. And, I did not have a
pulse-rt group. I did not create the group.
>
> Make sure that Pulse is being run automatically at startup (it should be,
> I just remember when it was not, and I had to set it up myself).
>
It was already starting automatically with /etc/init.d/pulseaudio
>
> ---
>
> The setting of the alsa default to pulse should make most things work,
> but personally I set a number of things to PA explicitly. At least some of
> these
> used to be required (they did not automatically use pulse and avoided the
> alsa default or similar). Nowadays that may not be the case, I don't know.
> Also they may have a PA driver that is different from the alsa driver, and
> may work better than redirected alsa.
>
> in ~/.mplayer/config: ao = pulse
>
> in ~/.xine/config: audio.driver:pulseaudio
>
> in ~/.vlcrc or ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc: aout=pulse
>
> in /etc/libao.conf: default_driver=pulse
>
>
I did not have the mplayer or xine config files above files. So, I created
them and add the recommended lines. I had the ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc. The
aout directive was present, but was commented out and had no value. So, I
set it. I changed the /etc/libao.conf from default_driver=alsa to
default_driver=pulse.
> for gstreamer:
> gconftool-2 -t string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosink
> pulsesink
> gconftool-2 -t string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc
> pulsesrc
> gconftool-2 -t string --set
> /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/musicaudiosink pulsesink
> gconftool-2 -t string --set
> /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/chataudiosink pulsesink
>
I ran the gconftool-2 commands.
>
> KDE's Phonon uses vlc, mplayer or gstreamer, so the above should cover
> that as well
>
> SDL (used for some games) can be set to explicitly use PA with:
> export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulse
> (needs to be done in a startup script like ~/.bashrc to be permanent)
>
I added the export to the .bashrc. I also executed it at the command line
so I didn't have to log out and back in.
I restarted pulseaudio with: /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart
This did not seem to work. So, I rebooted. This seems to work. I was
able to play a movie with sound on VLC, Minecraft and Skype all at once
without breaking anything.
>
> As far as I remember that is about it. As I said, setting those explicitly
> may not be needed anymore, I just don't know.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kelly Clowers
>
>
>
Thank you so much for sticking with me. I appreciate everyone's comments.
I hope that someone with find this thread useful in the future.
