Hi Paul! On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 02:34:50PM -0300, Paul wrote: > I've been using Freevo on Ubuntu Karmic Koala for about 6 months but always > with the intention of trying something else at some point. The main reason > is the audio performance, I seem to be one of the many users suffering from > Ubuntu's implementation of Pulseaudio, and looking at the Ubuntu forums it > seems this problem is still present in Lucid Lynx.
Can't you just throw out this pulseaudio stuff and use alsa directly? > With my hard drive > recently failing it seems a good time to try something else, I was looking > at Debian but am open to suggestions, what have your experiences been? I'm using Debian Lenny (no X, just a Matrox G400 and directfb) and setup Alsa to use direct hardware access (device hw:0). Soundservers are evil and I also don't like the default Alsa dmix plugin doing any resampling :-) So far I didn't have any issues with Debian, and since you are already familiar with Ubuntu switching to Debian shouldn't be a big deal. BTW: Personally, I'm not too fond of Ubuntu, it's a little bit too experimental and bleeding-edge to me. I installed Lucid Lynx on my sister's laptop several months ago and were plagued by the infamous GMA4500 random screen flickers for quite a while, until someone mentioned that setting i915.powersave=0 fixed this (default on Ubuntu was 1, IIRC on Debian it was 0). Also I'm not sure if the switch from sysv-init to upstart wasn't too early (there still seem to be some issues with upstart). so long, Hias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
