[LAU] [PlanetCCRMA] Mixer Wowes

[Patrick Shirkey]

Burkhard Ritter wrote:
> TheOther wrote:
>   
>>  From this (disabling the motherboard sound chip) I inferred that 
>> PulseAudio was developed as a means for helping Windows users transfer 
>> to Linux in a painless manner.  I'm assuming PulseAudio was never 
>> intended to be useful for advanced Linux audio users, because it 
>> wasn't checking for additional sound chips/cards/devices *and* 
>> allowing the user to specify the order in which those sound 
>> chips/cards/devices would be used.  PulseAudio always defaulted to the 
>> motherboard sound chip, and a fair number of Linux sound applications 
>> always default to the default sound chip/card/device (which in the 
>> case of PulseAudio will be the motherboard sound chip.)  Hence, you're 
>> having all this trouble in trying to use a special video/audio card 
>> because PulseAudio and very likely your sound application are only 
>> trying to use your motherboard sound chip, since that is the default.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Stephen.
>>     
>
> This is just wrong. You can change the default card easily from the 
> pulseaudio applet, see a recent thread for details and discussion. I'm 
> beginning to suspect that the bad acceptance of Pulseaudio that's 
> perceivable at least on this list is in not a small part only due to bad 
> user interface design. Namely hiding major functionality in context 
> menus in obscure places.
>
>   


That's certainly one part of the issue. Although I find the applets are 
quite handy when I'm using the correct one. In Fedora there is a "volume 
control" and a "pulse vu control" which both have the same icon and are 
similarly named as to be confusing. Also the pulse vu control is 
accessed via the applicaations/sound and video menu where as the vu 
control is accessed via System/Preferences/Hardware/

I personally feel that pulse vu control should be in the systems menu.

There is also a problem with the general negative attitude towards pulse 
audio that can be seen when doing a search on the web for information 
about how to make it work.

I think this negative feedback creates a negative user experience.


Cheers.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd




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