[LAU] pulseaudio issues [was Re: jackdbus issues: a workaround ? (Was: more jack/qjackctl madness)]

rob rob at curates-egg.org
Tue May 19 03:49:07 EDT 2009


Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> Desktop Linux users need these features:
>
> 1: Auto detect sound card
> 2: Easily accessible volume controls
> 3: Easy to define default sound card and route audio streams
> 4: Easy to start mutiple multimedia apps and route the audio
> 5: Easy to change from being a consumer user to a professional user and 
> back again.
>
> IMO 1 to 4 have been fairly well accomplished but step 5 is currently fubar.
>
> Pulse should detect if jack has been started and cede control of the 
> audio device.
> Pulse should allow users the option of auto switching to the jack i/os 
> or using a different device.
> Pulse should retain these configuration settings.
>
> Pulse should assume that when a user starts jack they want their audio 
> to be temporarily reconfigured and if that means routing the pulse 
> stream to /dev/null for a brief period then it should handle that 
> internally and maintain existing application streams. Once it has 
> successfully reconfigured to connect with jack or an alternate device it 
> can redirect the audio streams to the chosen output.
>   
And for those of us running two soundcards (one for desktop, one for 
recording) it would be polite if I Pulse would refrain from touching the 
'studio' card.  Ever.

R



More information about the Linux-audio-user mailing list