On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > 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.h > >>>> tm 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. > > Well if I'm going to use ALSA I need something that gives me > per-application volume control since ALSA is too broken to even provide > that while the rest of the world moved on.
funny how I can change the volume in wesnoth or vlc, independent from the rest. You are blaming the wrong people here.
