[pulseaudio-discuss] Dealing with the PC speaker sound output via ALSA, aka snd-pcsp

2008-09-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
Greetings all, Ubuntu intrepid will be shipping kernel version 2.6.27, and alsa 1.0.17. However, for some reason which I am not really sure of yet, our kernel team have enabled snd-pcsp, and disabled pcspkr, resulting in the PC speakerbeing available for audio output. We have also added

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] arecord does not work with pulse audio: I/O error

2008-10-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:10:22PM EST, Keedi Kim wrote: Hi. I followed PerfectSetup of pulseaudio wiki, then aplay works well, but arecord doesn't. ALSA's arecord terminates with pcm_read:1473: read error: Input/output error message. Does anybody has idea? Could you please tell us

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio elusive

2008-12-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:16:26AM PST, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Jack Tanner at 07/12/08 14:55 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie gmane at colin.guthr.ie writes: Well the main tool that is used when you have PA underneath is pavucontrol. This app will allow you to work

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] module-hal-detect not loading HDMI devices...

2009-02-10 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 05:38:56AM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, Someone was asking on IRC as to why module-hal-detect didn't find his HDMI output... A little investigation later and I see: # D: module-hal-detect.c: Not loaded device

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:23:10AM EST, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: 1) For fucks sakes: get your bloody kernels fixed. Enable preempt, set HZ to 1000. Get rid of low-quality drivers that block the CPU. Latencies of 210ms is *REALLY NOT NECESSARY*. Is there

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Intel HDA on ubuntu 9.04 beta

2009-04-02 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:48:21AM EST, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 02.04.09 11:05, Jon Smirl (jonsm...@gmail.com) wrote: Yes, I forgot I had edited default.pa before trying to get this work. I removed those edits. Then ran Pulse with verbose These complaints come from

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] current git, HDA with S/PDIF not found

2009-04-02 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 05:44:54AM EST, Jon Smirl wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net wrote: On Thu, 02.04.09 14:08, Jon Smirl (jonsm...@gmail.com) wrote: I: module-alsa-card.c: Found output profile 'Output Digital Stereo (IEC958) + Input Analog

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio and hal deprecation/DeviceKit.

2009-05-11 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:47:31PM EST, Maxim Levitsky wrote: (I strongly believe that it is possible to write a generic hda driver, and make it work with most computers without magic initialization for each and every laptop model out there) I don't know how much you know about hda, but one

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio 0.9.15 and no sound on Ubuntu

2009-05-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 02:03:46AM EST, Hynek Hanke wrote: Hello, I'd like to correct myself that the last positive results that I reported in ``Distribution kernels and glitch-free'' were still on 0.9.14 because our earlier attempt to install 0.9.15 from Debian wasn't really successful,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-05-28 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:59:00PM CEST, Jan Buchal wrote: LP == Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net writes: [=] LP Could you please extract a minimal test case for me, then I'll LP have a look on it to find out what's wrong. Dear Mr. Poettering, thank for your

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] Patches for 0.9.15

2009-06-11 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 06:08:31PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi Everyone, Yesterday Lennart mentioned on IRC that he's got a bunch of recommended patches to apply on top of 0.9.15 for stable distros. He gave the list of patches from the fedora patches as the source, but as I tend to

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] Patches for 0.9.15

2009-06-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 06:18:15PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Luke Yelavich at 12/06/09 03:13 did gyre and gimble: So I've pushed the branch 0.9.15-branch to my own git clone: http://colin.guthr.ie/git/pulseaudio/log/?h=0.9.15-branch This branch/tree appears not to have any

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] Patches for 0.9.15

2009-06-13 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:19:34PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: Sure they do. I just downloaded 0.9.15 tarball, then cloned my repo and issued: git format-patch v0.9.15..origin/0.9.15-branch Then I applied them in order. It all works fine. Not sure what you're doing to break it but it

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [Fwd: Let's discuss the state of Audio on Linux - OSS and ALSA people]

2009-07-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 04:21:45AM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 11/07/09 17:47 did gyre and gimble: http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3199 I spent some time writing up my opinions. It would be good if other people could do the same if they have

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Assert hit when attempting to use pulseaudio git master with the a52 alsa plugin and an optical digital 5.1 surround sound profile.

2009-07-26 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:46:43PM EST, Lennart Poettering wrote: Could you check if 18433c19b690432179e9a0ed83eff611f5cecc67 fixes your problem? If it doesn't then this is definitely a bug in ALSA's a52 module and should be fixed there, so please file a abug against ALSA then. No go, will

[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio bluetooth failure when attempting to switch from stereo audio to telephony profile.

2009-08-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
When attempting to switch from the stereo audio profile (can't remember what the technical term for it is), to the telephony profile, I manage to crash pulseaudio. To reproduce, get pulseaudio 0.9.16-test4 running, use a bluetooth headset to listen to music, then attempt to switch your headset

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] What PulseAud io does to your low-level mixer controls ¶

2009-11-02 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:42:05AM EST, Lennart Poettering wrote: Heya! Just wanted to point you all to this little Wiki page I just wrote: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes Thanks, this will be very useful for various bug reports Ubuntu receives. Luke

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2010-01-03 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:08:07AM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 02/01/10 05:59 did gyre and gimble: So that's how I see it should work. I'm not very confident when speaking about consolekit and boot/login processes, so I have to hope that the system I

[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Add rtkitctl manpage

2010-01-17 Thread Luke Yelavich
As Lennart asked about the rtkitctl manpage Ubuntu has, here is a patch against rtkit git. From 10a48d36a545676209bcc1e24d0d89dcaa12f053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Yelavich luke.yelav...@canonical.com Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:13:54 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Add rtkitctl manpage

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

2010-02-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:25:27PM EST, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 10.02.10 18:49, Jeremy Nickurak (pulseaudio-disc...@trk.nickurak.ca) wrote: Incidentally, this seems to be the same use case that vision-impaired users were dealing with recently: How can system-level processes inject

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] 0.9.22 on Ubuntu Lucid gobbling up CPU

2010-05-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi Bill On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:19:32PM CEST, Bill Cox wrote: My question is: should I enable this by default for all Vinux users? Vinux is slightly modified Ubuntu Lucid for the blind. If I install this on the Vinux ISO, will users automatically get upgraded linux-alsa-driver-modules when

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Proper PulseAudio installation for KUbuntu 10.4 ; jor PA

2010-06-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 05:44:56PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: I believe the necessary support in Phonon and KMix is not included in the KUbuntu distribution (although, as above, I'm not familiar with it so cannot comment fully), but suffice to say, the GUIs and interfaces you should expect to

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] building PulseAudio from git master

2010-07-15 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 09:27:07AM EST, Sean McNamara wrote: Does this mean that PA 0.9.22 is due to be released soon? Work has continued on PA in git master for a long time since 0.9.21 has been released, and a lot of user-facing bugs have been fixed. I noticed that Ubuntu (and presumably

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio debug mode

2010-07-23 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:04:01AM CEST, Chris wrote: What is the best way to start PA for debugging and still have all the usual clients running? You are probably best off to run pulseaudio in a terminal with - specified on the command-line. This will give you a rather verbose log of what

[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse segfault when xcb related funcitnos are called.

2010-09-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi guys Since updating pulseaudio in maverick to latest stable queue a couple of days ago, a bug report has been filed with a segfault. Bug is here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/640127 I have attached the threaded stack trace to this email. I'll try and take a

[pulseaudio-discuss] The CD mixer element.

2010-09-28 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi all, A bug was recently filed in Ubuntu from a user who wants to record audio input from the audio CD connection on his motherboard, and the user couldn't find the CD input as an option in the GNOME volume control preferences. Of course I replied back about using a CD ripping app to copy

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] accessing native ALSA directly while pulseaudio is running

2010-10-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:09:42AM EST, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 22:47 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: Hello, Since a few weeks I'm running pulseaudio on my machines and it works nicely. I especially like the ability to send audio though the network. However, I need

[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Explicitly link against pulse libraries

2010-10-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
From: Luke Yelavich luke.yelav...@canonical.com When building pulseaudio master using gcc 4.5.2 and binutils 2.20.51 plus latest snapshot from 2010-10-14, ld complained about missing symbols. This patch explicitly links more pulseaudio libraries to satisfy the linker. Signed-off-by: Luke

[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Explicitly link against pulse libraries

2010-10-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
From: Luke Yelavich luke.yelav...@canonical.com When building pulseaudio stable-queue using gcc 4.5.2 and binutils 2.20.51 plus latest snapshot from 2010-10-14, ld complained about missing symbols. This patch explicitly links more pulseaudio libraries to satisfy the linker. Signed-off-by: Luke

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Explicitly link against pulse libraries

2010-10-15 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:58:31PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Luke Yelavich at 15/10/10 04:31 did gyre and gimble: From: Luke Yelavich luke.yelav...@canonical.com When building pulseaudio master using gcc 4.5.2 and binutils 2.20.51 plus latest snapshot from 2010-10-14

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Explicitly link against pulse libraries

2010-10-15 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:10:20PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: It might be useful, but then again, I'd expect that if as-needed and no-undefined were used there would be link failures prior to the tests being built (it bombs out much earlier for me when I do that). So the link flags would be

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Can I push a tag on master to set the version?

2010-10-31 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 07:08:01AM EDT, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, I've had a few people recently ask me about the version of git master. As it's based on git tags, I'd like to push a tag to git master called e.g. v0.10.0-pre1 or v0.9.23-pre1 (reserving v0.9.22 for stable-queue) This will

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC] disabling monitor source patch

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 05:14:45AM EDT, David Henningsson wrote: I would say to go with keeping the monitoring source - either decode it, leave the raw data as it is, or write zeroes, whatever we conclude is the best way to go. Decoding will likely require patent encumbered code, i.e ffmpeg

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] dynamically changing alsa sink/source sampling rate

2010-11-15 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:21:47AM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: So whichever way you cut it, there is no nice solution to do dynamic sample rate switching of the hardware and the only logical and practical solution is to use a fixed sample rate on your system and covert to this. Its also worth

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] alsa-mixer: Add workaround for some USB headsets

2011-04-06 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:57:22AM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: We'll likely push out stable-queue very soon. If you've got a fairly recent snapshot for Ubuntu already, then bumping the version to 0.9.23 should be uncontroversial (tho' version bumps may still be banned by policy regardless).

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] New dep

2011-05-26 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 04:52:02AM EST, Arun Raghavan wrote: The website worked fine as of a month ago. I don't know why it's down now. The library serves the purpose we need well (light weight, doesn't invent its own type system, allows you to parse out values individually instead of