On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS > >> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead. > > > > sure? > > Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.html > > PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a > dep :-/ Will file a bug about it. > > As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot > compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix > though, which is surprising. > > Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but > there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend. > The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops > and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried to > set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no sound.
yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA. Why again are you wasting your time with PA?
