On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Alecks Gates <[email protected]> wrote: >> Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 >> >> >> On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: >>> > >>> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <[email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> > >>> >>> Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon >>> >>> version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants >>> >>> pulseaudio, >>> >>> which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I >>> >>> wouldn't >>> >>> mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play >>> >>> movies, >>> >>> and I get no sound output in mplayer or VLC. And there are weird side >>> >>> effects, sometimes playback stops, I have to make it run again by >>> >>> skipping back and forward. Sometimes videos play much faster than >>> >>> normal. >>> >> >>> >> Is MPlayer using PulseAudio? Maybe if it did, the problem would go >>> >> away; I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config: >>> >> >>> >> ao=pulse >>> >> For sure, VLC has an option to use PA by default also. >>> > >>> > Oh, I think it does, but there was no sound output. Sorry for not >>> > mentioning this. I had to switch manually to another sound device, HDA >>> > ATI something, I cannot look now because I am not near my desktop PC. >>> > >>> > If it would just work, then I could make my players use it if they don't >>> > already. But what about old applications like Quake3, will they still >>> > work? >>> >>> Of course. I have been using PulseAudio since it became stable in >>> Gentoo (circa October 2010); in my experience, making everything sound >>> related going through PulseAudio makes everything work. Most modern >>> applications support directly PulseAudio; for the old ones that don't, >>> you can make all ALSA sound go through PulseAudio like this: >>> >>> # cat /etc/asound.conf >>> pcm.!default { >>> type pulse >>> } >>> >>> ctl.!default { >>> type pulse >>> } >>> >>> (If you want it for all users; for your user only, use $HOME/.asoundrc). >> >> I believe this fix is no longer necessary in the latest version of >> alsa-plugins, 1.0.25-r1 (with the pulseaudio USE flag of course). >> Definitely don't have this config change on my systems. I recall a blog >> post from a couple months ago explaining this fix. > > I would like a link to that blog post. I haven't read anything about it. > > Regards. > -- > Canek Peláez Valdés > Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México >
Sure, here you go: http://arunraghavan.net/2012/02/gentoo-pulseaudio-alsa-update/
