On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:45:56 +0700, Harry wrote in message <aanlktimk86fsmgmhwop_n2jc9s1qz10p8s4hcxucc...@mail.gmail.com>:
> Gee Arnt, > > > i am not the one to say, for starters what I am doing is quite off > track compared to the average flight gear user. I have to remain > prepared to hand do things to suit my needs. If I can hand edit a > file in /etc once and know its going to stay that way I am happy for > my setup. I am not running gui's either. > > In my short time over on Debian, or really Ubuntu I got the > impression from reading that they had gone pretty much all in with > Pulse Audio. I was rather surprised to find the text only server > install had Alsa on it by default. Also I "think" I saw mention Suse > had gone with pulse as well, but I might be wrong with that one too. ..alsa is good, talks and listens to the hardware, but can only do one by one thing at the time, so it needs a multitasking one-thing input. > But if pulse is becoming mainstream in desktop distros it would be > good if it handled multiple cards and did all the hard work, as long > as it does the job with out creating more issues. Depends on where > the developers are heading with FG and if you can get Pulse or Pd on > the job. ..well, I'm more likely to conclude my Pure Data suggestion as a pulseaudio replacement, was a bad rather than a good idea. ;o) Apple and lemon kinda thing, PA is a modular audio server, PD is also modular like Jack, but these are more like modular patch wire panel mixers, but they can feed Alsa drivers ok. > That puredata looks pretty swish! I downloaded their Ubuntu 10.10 deb > file, so I will see what it does tomorrow. ..aye, part of the problem is we must understand what we want before we get carried away with all the pretty swish. ;o) > All I know is the nearest thing to good audio on an aeroplane is the > passenger entertainment system, not the am comm radios. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
