On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > 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.htm > >> l > >> > >> 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. > > "audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/ > > > Why again are you wasting your time with PA? > > Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4. So I ought to > actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup", > or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about.
really? There are people claiming that? ok, everything is better than OSS4 - but PA? That crap is almost as bad as ESD.
