On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:37:23 BST Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Have I to go the PulseAudio route after all? > > You do not *have to*, but if you find the PulseAudio server and associated > GUI/CLI tools are convenient for you, then you can set up USE=pulseaudio and > use that to mix your sound sinks and sources devices with. > > As Canek has already posted in most cases it just works. However, I must > confess I had a spate of pa processes racing up to 100% CPU and annoyingly > respawning each time I tried to kill it. An update eventually fixed this > problem and it worked fine ever since. Well, after setting USE=pulseaudio and emerging uaDvN @world, sound has reappeared. I haven't tried multiple sources yet, but - one thing at a time. Web-cam next, in between recommissioning other boxes with my new display-port KVM. I'm getting too old and stiff for this. :( [OT] Fully in accordance with Murphy, yesterday's upgrade of ICU had already caused rebuilds of all the big packages (rust, qt-core, llvm, clang, virtualbox, libreoffice, firefox, both web kits ...). What with those, remerging everything took half the day. [/OT] -- Regards, Peter.
