hi. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Eli Billauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > > I've been doing some sound editing lately on my FC12, just to discover that > there is a new annoyance in town, namely Pulseaudio. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio > > I discovered it when Audacity failed to play back files or made choppy > noises. Other applications also seem to get messed up with this piece of > I-don't-know-what. > > > My first instinct is to kick it out of my system, but since Fedora is a > system for experts (are they going to open a Red Hat University soon?) I > don't really know how to do that and what consequences I may face. I mean, > it's not so easy to just shut down. Killing the server makes it restart (as > a matter of fact, killall -9 pulseaudio has become my catch-all solution for > audio problems lately). And I haven't even figured out how to disable this > restart mechanism. > don't kick it. many packages depend on it. gnome, kde... > > > And unfortunately, with all those fancy graphs and fluffy talk about > generalized everything, I haven't gotten to grasp how the machinery ticks. > Are there any special files? Domain sockets? What? > > forget it :) please explain what do you do with audio, maybe it makes sense to make sure you have the right version of audacity (or additional packages for its pulseaudio support installed) > > Does anyone have insights about this? Is there any reason why this audio > server could be really useful, except for all the fine words said about it? > Weren't things OK as they were in the good old times, when audio was just > /dev/dsp? > > there were many problems back then. it was old oss interface with no parallel device access, and many other problems. you may try using oss v4, but I doubt fedore included a pulse audio package with support to oss v.4 > > But most important of all: Should I give this thing a mighty kick in the > bottom? And if so, how? > don't do that. see the 1st remark. please specify your work tasks. > > > Thanks, > > Eli > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il > > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > [email protected] > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux > -- Maxim Kovgan
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