[LAU] PulseAudio and Alsa

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 31 August 2008 17:48, Folderol wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:38:58 -0600
>
> Stephen Doonan <stephen.doonan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Folderol wrote:
> > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:37:34 -0600
> > >
> > > Stephen Doonan <stephen.doonan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> What is the feeling among Linux audio users about PulseAudio?
> > >
> > > Personally I've had virtually no contact with it. The only App. of mine
> > > that uses it is Audacity, and I find it's behaviour very strange when
> > > trying to get it to work with jack.
> >
> > Audacity uses PortAudio, not PulseAudio, right? Two different things,
> > which only adds to the confusion (in my mind). :-)
>
> Oops :)

Hi Will. Just stick to writing music, and by the way we havn't had anything 
from you lately.

If pulseaudio does turn up as a new package when you update, and the sound was 
working just fine before that, then just disable the darned thing, as it can 
cause problems that didn't exist before.

I've used Alsa since Fedora Core 1, but come Fedora 8, pulseaudio is now 
installed as default, and the sounds with my Audigy2 soundblaster card, no 
longer worked.  Removing the package "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio" got the sounds 
working again.

Thankfully none of my other distros, Debian, Kubuntu, or Archlinux have forced 
Pulseaudio onto me.

Nigel.