Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-15 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Or much better self responsibility, sorry, I couldn't resist. Use jackd, read the ff manual and control audio streams yourself. Automation always tends to fail. How I agree that manual control will give better results assuming one knows what he is doing,

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-14 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/14/2012 03:17 AM, Tom Rand wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:59:07AM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: On 13 August 2012 21:36, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 21:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Some chips work better at e.g. 96KHz, it doesn't depend to

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-14 Thread Alex Belanger
You are either trolling or don't understand that you are not one man group. We have guidelines: He asked politely; be respectful back but also for others here. On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/14/2012 03:17 AM, Tom Rand wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 08:07 -0400, Alex Belanger wrote: You are either trolling or don't understand that you are not one man group. We have guidelines: He asked politely; be respectful back but also for others here. Top posting isn't nice too ;). However, some shared mails off-list, if a

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:08:43AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Of course bullshit is also rife and quite amusing sometimes. The same pro audio world sells £10,000 gold power cables as thick as your arm and then plugs them into a standard copper wall socket. Nobody in the pro audio world

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 02:08 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: The same pro audio world sells £10,000 gold power cables as thick as your arm and then plugs them into a standard copper wall socket. No, that are rich consumers. I don't think that all of those consumers are stupid audiophiles, I guess

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Not that the pro audio world doesn't have its own share of nonsense, but it's different nonsense. Yeah but that stuff is usually just irritating but the audiophile example is a little funny without explanation. -- ___ 'Write

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 12:21 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Not that the pro audio world doesn't have its own share of nonsense, but it's different nonsense. Yeah but that stuff is usually just irritating but the audiophile example is a little funny without explanation. One hand washes the

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 August 2012 16:04, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:08:43AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Of course bullshit is also rife and quite amusing sometimes. The same pro audio world sells Ł10,000 gold power cables as thick as your arm and then plugs them

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 23:49 +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: Otherwise, we usually make our own cables. Private I sometimes buy ready to use cables, I just check if the soldering joints are ok. It's less expensive, since in Germany we've got an online retailer who sells equipment for less money.

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 23:49 +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: Otherwise, we usually make our own cables. Private I sometimes buy ready to use cables, I just check if the soldering joints are ok. It's less expensive,

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 18:20 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 23:49 +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: Otherwise, we usually make our own cables. Private I sometimes buy ready to use cables, I

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: For professional usage cables usually have to be self-made. Btw. I once asked if Neutrik plastic cable relief does crumble all over the world after a while at LAU or LAD. Yes, they do. I switched to Rean. Which is Neutrik made in

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Sander Jansen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 23:49 +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: Otherwise, we usually make our own cables. Private I sometimes buy

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 16:35 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: For professional usage cables usually have to be self-made. Btw. I once asked if Neutrik plastic cable relief does crumble all over the world after a while at LAU or

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 19:38 +0200, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: Actually, that's one point where PA is right (even though it's wrong on a lot of other points): doing it like (2) avoids amplifying the quantification noise if the sound card applies the master gain in analog

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Fons Adriaensen wrote: 16 bit means that there are 2^16 possible values for a sample. So the signal is quantised to the nearest level. Except in some special cases, the error (a rounding error) is random and appears as noise. For a 16-bit card, that noise will have a level that is 98 dB lower

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 19:53 +0200, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: Two points: - You don't readjust the master continuously, but you don't add/remove sources on the fly either. You adjust the master in the beginning when you setup your system, but the reason you can do that is because you

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:33:41PM +0200, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: Fons Adriaensen wrote: 16 bit means that there are 2^16 possible values for a sample. So the signal is quantised to the nearest level. Except in some special cases, the error (a rounding error) is random and appears as

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On 12 August 2012 02:47, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: This is completely sick. Any audio engineer trying to use a mixer that way would (and should) be fired for gross incompetence - immediately. Argument by

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:47:59AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Argument by authority, nice. Care to elaborate? (Sorry to anyone who is sick of PA, but for once I'm seeing the chance to learn something from one of these threads ;-)). No authority needed here, it's just extremely clumsy to use

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 13:07 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: [4] You can't apply a soundcard mixer gain change at some exact point in a sample stream. So you can't change the master gain and change your internal scaling to compensate at exactly the same time. There will always be a glitch.

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 15:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 13:07 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: [4] You can't apply a soundcard mixer gain change at some exact point in a sample stream. So you can't change the master gain and change your internal scaling to compensate

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 15:31 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 15:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 13:07 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: [4] You can't apply a soundcard mixer gain change at some exact point in a sample stream. So you can't change the

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: it's just extremely clumsy to use a mixer that way, you'd need ten hands. For it means that whenever you want to adjust a single channnel you may have to adjust *all* others and the master at the same time. Unlike

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 16:00 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Ok. This is what I was wondering about. I will try to listen for glitches then (I have not noticed any during my years of using PA, but I'll pay more attention). If it is true that a noticeable glitch is produced, then obviously you have

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 04:00:47PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: it's just extremely clumsy to use a mixer that way, you'd need ten hands. For it means that whenever you want to adjust a single channnel you may have

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 04:00:47PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: You have showed that it is unnecessary in one particular (very simple) case. However, you have not showed that it is unnecessary in all cases, so this is not really relevant (had we been talking about a human doing this, you'd

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:01:06 + Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 04:00:47PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: it's just extremely clumsy to use a mixer that way, you'd need ten

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 04:00:47PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: You have showed that it is unnecessary in one particular (very simple) case. However, you have not showed that it is unnecessary in all cases, so this is

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:07:32 + Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:47:59AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Argument by authority, nice. Care to elaborate? (Sorry to anyone who is sick of PA, but for once I'm seeing the chance to learn something from one

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: If you have apps A, B, C with volumes a, b, c you can always set the HW gain to unity gain (0dB), and send s = a * A + b * B + c * C (1) to the soundcard. What would be the advantage of doing what PA does,

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:02:59 +0200 Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 04:00:47PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: You have showed that it is unnecessary in one particular (very simple) case.

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: So... on my intel AD I have PCM and Master knobs (in alsa). Are you saying that I should set Master to max (-0dB) and control volume through PCM only? FWIW, on my intel soundcard I have Master, PCM and Front. When I

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that's possible, because dB is normalized to max power (in watts = intensity). If I understand correctly, 0dB is don't apply any gain. On some chips, that's indeed the same as max,

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:02 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: The second case, where the total gain should be 0dB, I would have thought intuitively that doing this purely in software (especially on very faint signals) would be less ideal than doing it in hw (you'd be throwing away the resolution,

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 11:10 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that's possible, because dB is normalized to max power (in watts = intensity). You can boost a signal. ... 0dB for the result of an

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/12/2012 10:00 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: [putolin] Clearly, PA is not meant for professional audio work. And it might be that for a professional all the PA logic is both unnecessary and maybe even detrimental (so you'd use jack or pure ALSA instead, that should not be a problem).

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 12:43 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/12/2012 10:00 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: [putolin] Clearly, PA is not meant for professional audio work. And it might be that for a professional all the PA logic is both unnecessary and maybe even detrimental (so you'd use jack

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Mauro Santos
On 12-08-2012 17:11, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:02 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: The second case, where the total gain should be 0dB, I would have thought intuitively that doing this purely in software (especially on very faint signals) would be less ideal than doing it in hw

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Fons Adriaensen wrote: It is never necessary. It it were that would imply that a sound card without any gain controls (equivalent to a fixed 0 dB gain) would fail in some cases. It doesn't. In fact many PRO cards are just like that. If you have apps A, B, C with volumes a, b, c you can

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:09 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: On 12-08-2012 17:11, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:02 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: The second case, where the total gain should be 0dB, I would have thought intuitively that doing this purely in software (especially on

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 19:38 +0200, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: Fons Adriaensen wrote: It is never necessary. It it were that would imply that a sound card without any gain controls (equivalent to a fixed 0 dB gain) would fail in some cases. It doesn't. In fact many PRO cards are just like

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:10:10AM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that's possible, because dB is normalized to max power (in watts = intensity). [ Tom Leonid ] Lots of questions... I'll try to answer them, but not all at a time (I need to

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:29 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: What does this mean ? It means that the dynamic range of 95 dB is more than enough. And if it isn't (as in a music studio where you'd want higher peak levels and the ambient noise level is lower) you just need a few more bits, maybe 20.

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 07:38:58PM +0200, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: Actually, that's one point where PA is right (even though it's wrong on a lot of other points): doing it like (2) avoids amplifying the quantification noise if the sound card applies the master gain in analog (or uses

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Mauro Santos
On 12-08-2012 20:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Is it really possible to know exactly, every time, at what level the sum of the audio streams are? IIRC float point does avoid some issues. However, do you think it's smart to adjust at least two following instances within the same audio chain at the

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 22:17 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: On 12-08-2012 20:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Is it really possible to know exactly, every time, at what level the sum of the audio streams are? IIRC float point does avoid some issues. However, do you think it's smart to adjust at least

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On 13 Aug 2012 04:31, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: Please don't tell me that PA is using 16-bit for its internal operations - that would really prove it's complete crap. As far as I can recall from discussion on their list, it's floating point. And thanks for the explanations

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I think you are forgetting that linux-based OS market usage is 1.0%. So by the same logic, why do so many people prefer NOT to use these OSs, because they are so good? Are those people all idiots? Sometimes numbers don't mean much... I guess you mean Linux-based desktop OS market usage. Linux

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
If it is true that a noticeable glitch is produced, then obviously you have a point, however if the glitch is not noticeable then I don't see the problem you have with PA. In the pro audio world the spinning of a cd has been noted to introduce errors as well as the windows volume control which

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 11 aug. 2012 03:02 schreef Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no het volgende: On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: [...] Like I said before, if you would support systemd, sytemd-tools and everything else related to systemd totally optional, and keep

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 10/08/12 23:38, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:33:39 -0400 schrieb Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com: Systemd and pulseaudio are completely different pieces of software with different purposes. Comparing them like that just because of the author is comparing apples to oranges.

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 09:56 +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Sure soon RHEL will switch to systemd with RHEL 7, so the systemd market share will probably continue to grow. Also SUSE seems to switch to systemd. With these major distro's taking up systemd, it's almost impossible that it's not

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:47:09 +0300 schrieb Thanasis Georgiou sakisd...@gmail.com: So you had a problem but when Tom wrote a patch you were unwilling to help test it? What part of I had no time to set up a VM. and I have only one stable system which needs to be stable and reliable. didn't you

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Thanasis Georgiou
On Aug 11, 2012 2:38 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:47:09 +0300 schrieb Thanasis Georgiou sakisd...@gmail.com: So you had a problem but when Tom wrote a patch you were unwilling to help test it? What part of I had no time to set up a VM. and I have

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:02:03 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: Issues, serious or otherwise, belong in the bug-tracker. We have surprisingly few systemd/pulseaudio bugs open, considering all the noise they create on the ML. Is it really that hard to respect other people's opinions and

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:56:49 +0200 schrieb Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl: Sure soon RHEL will switch to systemd with RHEL 7, so the systemd market share will probably continue to grow. Also SUSE seems to switch to systemd. With these major distro's taking up systemd, it's almost impossible

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:16:46 +0200 Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:56:49 +0200 schrieb Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl: Sure soon RHEL will switch to systemd with RHEL 7, so the systemd market share will probably continue to grow. Also SUSE seems to

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Guus Snijders
2012/8/11 Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de: Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:02:03 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: Issues, serious or otherwise, belong in the bug-tracker. We have surprisingly few systemd/pulseaudio bugs open, considering all the noise they create on the ML. Also

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Guus Snijders
2012/8/11 Guus Snijders gsnijd...@gmail.com: 2012/8/11 Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de: [...] And I just don't want this systemd stuff on my harddisk. Well, it should be possible to create a system (even Arch!) completely free of systemd tools. You'd have to rebuild some of the

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Kwpolska
*grabs popcorn* On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: But they take space on my harddisk. And even TB harddisks can get full some day. And not everybody is able to afford a new one at once. [kwpolska@kwpolska-lin ~]% du -sh /usr/lib/systemd 3.6M

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Damjan
And I hadn't had time to set up a VM. not to worry, the whole world of free software developers (including Arch) are here and have all the time to serve your wishes. -- дамјан

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:21:01 +0200 schrieb Damjan gdam...@gmail.com: not to worry, the whole world of free software developers (including Arch) are here and have all the time to serve your wishes. Have you thought about that comment before sending it? Heiko

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:02:50PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: With pulse it just takes over the master volume when it try to adjust audio in an application cranking the master volume to full. Without pulse it just works the way I like it to be. So count me as one of the ones who doesn't like

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: So imagine the average desktop user who gets five or so of them: - one provided by the application (player or something) - one provided by PA or similar, - probably two by the soundcard mixer, PA combines these

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:15:14AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: So imagine the average desktop user who gets five or so of them: - one provided by the application (player or something) - one provided by PA or

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: First, PA has no visibility on whatever internal volume control an app provides. It just doesn't know about it. All it gets is the output from the app. This is not correct. If the app has proper PA support (such as

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:41:24AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: First, PA has no visibility on whatever internal volume control an app provides. It just doesn't know about it. All it gets is the output from the

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Mauro Santos
On 11-08-2012 23:33, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/11/2012 06:15 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: So imagine the average desktop user who gets five or so of them: - one provided by the application (player or something) - one

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Jan Steffens
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: If that is true it is completely wrong from the start. Because that setup can't be maintained when a second app starts playing which can happen at any time. Suppose that first (single) app has its volume set to some

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 00:15 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: So imagine the average desktop user who gets five or so of them: - one provided by the application (player or something) - one provided by PA or similar,

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Mauro Santos
On 12-08-2012 00:41, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/11/2012 07:37 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: On 11-08-2012 23:33, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/11/2012 06:15 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: So imagine the average desktop user who gets five

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 01:41:01AM +0200, Jan Steffens wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: If that is true it is completely wrong from the start. Because that setup can't be maintained when a second app starts playing which can happen at any

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 01:41 +0200, Jan Steffens wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: If that is true it is completely wrong from the start. Because that setup can't be maintained when a second app starts playing which can happen at any time.

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: This is not correct. If the app has proper PA support (such as all KDE apps, and probably all gnome apps), then PA does the app specific mixing, not the app itself. That doesn't stop the app from having its own

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: This is completely sick. Any audio engineer trying to use a mixer that way would (and should) be fired for gross incompetence - immediately. Argument by authority, nice. Care to elaborate? (Sorry to anyone who is sick

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 02:43 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: If that is true it is completely wrong from the start. Because that setup can't be maintained when a second app starts playing which can happen at any time.

[arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 08:47 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/10/2012 08:11 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: OT: Btw. it would be nice if everybody has got the choice to use or not to use systemd. IMO there's no need to talk about pros and cons, Poettering again and again. I suspect we use different

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On 10 Aug 2012 22:52, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: . PA until today is pure crap for MOST computer users (including those who try to switch to Linux), I don't like to hear again and again, that it does work for most Linux users, I even DOUBT that very much. This again? Let's

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 23:50 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On 10 Aug 2012 22:52, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: . PA until today is pure crap for MOST computer users (including those who try to switch to Linux), I don't like to hear again and again, that it does work for most Linux

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/10/2012 11:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On 10 Aug 2012 22:52, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: . PA until today is pure crap for MOST computer users (including those who try to switch to Linux), I don't like to hear again and again, that it does work for most Linux users, I even

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Aug 10, 2012 5:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: As already reported, both, the version from the repositories + this patched version works with the NM applet on my Xfce, unfortunately the patched version brakes Thunar. Thanks. Tom

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 23:50 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Oh, and very few people actually use simple stereo audio chips, the majority of people use multi channel audio cards to listen to their YouTube. Puleaudio doesn't work for many people simply using stereo with on-board devices. We are living

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Aug 10, 2012 6:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 23:50 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Oh, and very few people actually use simple stereo audio chips, the majority of people use multi channel audio cards to listen to their YouTube. Puleaudio doesn't

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:04:39 +0200 Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Aug 10, 2012 5:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: As already reported, both, the version from the repositories + this patched version works with the NM applet on my Xfce, unfortunately the patched

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Aug 10, 2012 6:32 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:04:39 +0200 Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Aug 10, 2012 5:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: As already reported, both, the version from the repositories + this patched

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 11:31 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:04:39 +0200 Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Aug 10, 2012 5:59 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: As already reported, both, the version from the repositories + this patched version works

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 21:43 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: And run a `ls /usr/lib/systemd/system`. The harddisk is filled up with a bunch of systemd stuff which I don't need and don't want to have. Hm? IIRC console-kit has a replacement when using systemd, so those and perhaps other files perhaps

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 22:04 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 21:43 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: And run a `ls /usr/lib/systemd/system`. The harddisk is filled up with a bunch of systemd stuff which I don't need and don't want to have. Hm? IIRC console-kit has a replacement

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Brandon Watkins
Systemd and pulseaudio are completely different pieces of software with different purposes. Comparing them like that just because of the author is comparing apples to oranges. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:27:33 +0200 schrieb

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/2012 09:02 AM, Baho Utot wrote: On 08/10/2012 11:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On 10 Aug 2012 22:52, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: . PA until today is pure crap for MOST computer users (including those who try to switch to

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:38:15 +0200 schrieb Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de: I really haven't seen so many and so long discussions and so many concerns and very negative opinions about a software than I have seen about Lennart's software. And I'm not only reading this mailing list. See e.g.

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: [snip: lots of whining about pulse audio] This is not the right mailinglist for this issue. And this certainly is not the right thread for it. And systemd seems to be similar. I also don't like that you want to imprint

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: If you buy a book at Amazon e.g., what do you read? Only the best 5-star reviews or also the 1-star reviews? I tell you something. Not always but a lot of times the fewer 1-star reviews are the better and more realistic

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:38:15 +0200 Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:33:39 -0400 schrieb Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com: Systemd and pulseaudio are completely different pieces of software with different purposes. Comparing them like that just because of the

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:59:25 +0200, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Do we always have to get personal? Seems to me that some people have way too much free time... And do you think it's a good idea to spam my inbox? Ah, right, I should unsubscribe. I don't read reviews because

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:57:46 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: I prefer the reviews (good or bad) from someone who has actually read the book. You can usually assume that everybody who writes a review has actually read the book. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:56:33 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: This is not the right mailinglist for this issue. And this certainly is not the right thread for it. This is the right mailing list for this issue, because downstream is also affected by this. And it is also downstream's

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:56:33 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: You pointed out a feature that initsrcipts used to have which systemd-cryptsetup lacked, (on the same day) I posted a patch to implement the feature you requested, and asked for feedback (which you didn't give) Just to

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