[LAU] Installed Fedora17, now trying to play sound

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On 07/16/2012 09:09 AM, Charles Henry wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Robin Paulson<robin.paulson at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 16 July 2012 15:44, Ivan K<ivan_521521 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>> Also, in the "Applications Menu" there are the following:
>>>     "ALSA Mixer"
>>>     "Envy 24 Control"
>>>     "Pulse Audio Volume Control"
>>
>> personally, if you're going to use this for recording/making music,
>> i'd recommend ripping out pulseaudio entirely and installing jack
>> instead.
>>
>> those applications will become redundant then.
>>
>> there are many jack-specific mixer/playback/control applications to
>> manipulate the sound, and it is far superior to pulseaudio, although
>> the latter is fine for general use: voip, listening to music, etc.
>
> Is there still a "pasuspender" (Pulse Audio suspender) command to let
> you run jack or alsa applications without the PA in the middle?

Jack will automatically request the card from Pulse Audio and release it 
when it is done, you don't need to do anything special.
-- Fernando


> At home, I think I'm running Debian Squeeze with both PA and jack, and
> each works fine.  Jack will take over in place of PA, when I want it
> to, without using the pasuspender command.