[LAU] Installed Fedora17, now trying to play sound

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 16 July 2012 at 10:15, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> 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.

Not doing anything special is my experience too.  But, I use M-Audio 
cards for pro and the built-in sound card for day-to-day audio.

--
Kevin