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> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:44:13 -0400
> From: bobgood...@wildblue.net
> To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: F11 and PulseAudio
>
> suvayu ali wrote:
>> 2009/7/20 Markus Kesaromous :
>>
>>>> From: amadeu...@verizon.net
>>>>
>>>>> Are there F11 media packages built without PulseAudio?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> mplayer, mpg321 and I'd be surprised if the rest of the gamut can only
>>>> function with pulseaudio, because virtually all of these have been around
>>>> long before pulseaudio.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanx for the heads up.
>>> It turned out that even though doing yum install of these packages causes
>>> the pulseaudio rpms to be installed as dependencies, someone on this list
>>> clued me that some of the media packages have a config file (such as
>>> mplayer) where you set up the audio output device to something other than
>>> pulseaudio. Since I have set it to alsa, I no longer have the problem I
>>> reported: namely that pulseaudio daemon was chewing up to 35% of cpu wen
>>> audio was playing.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I understand the workaround makes things work for you. Everyone keeps
>> complaining about pulseaudio and always as a fix someone suggests a
>> workaround that effectively disables it, but wouldn't a bug report
>> help improve pulseaudio?
>>
>> Isn't the idea behind pulseaudio (multiple applications being able to
>> access the sound hardware simultaneously) a rather useful one? I would
>> think the community would welcome such a move and help further the
>> development rather than advocate opposition.
>>
>> I would report the problems if I had one. I have used pulseaudio
>> without a single problem so far both in F10 and F11. (except for the
>> inaudible default volume setting which was easily taken care of by
>> alsamixer) All I am trying to say is, a bug report would help rather
>> than disabling and forgetting about it.
>>
>> Just a thought ...
>>
>>
>
> Perhaps everyone would be helped if there was a "signal flow"
> diagram showing how pulseaudio, alsa, and the computer audio card
> fit together? It would help me ... If such information exists please
> point me to it.
>
> I have had no trouble, usually sound just works on my computers
> after tweaking some levels, however it's not an issue since my need
> for computer sound is minimal.
>
> Bob
>
>
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As I had indicated in my original post, my only problem was load factor.
Pulseaudio was taking upto 35% of my 2.2 GHz Athlon cpu. That's a gigantic load
factor!! When combined with how firefox often consumes upto 98% of cpu, I am
left with a dead system. There was not much I could do about firefox (3.5)
other than perhaps stop using it. But I wanted to do away with pulseaudio,
because I know I did not need it in my previous fedora installation (currently
I am on F11).
Cheers,
MK
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