30 Sep
2008
30 Sep
'08
1:28 p.m.
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Lennart Poettering wrote:
That is part of the problem, if this is a feedback path, this is the first
mention of it that I have noticed. Actual URL's please, my acronym translator
needs a new dictionary. :)
I will mark this message as important, and check it out as I build another box
to replace this one early next week. Thanks for the URL.
On Mon, 29.09.08 14:32, Gene Heskett
(gene.heskett(a)verizon.net) wrote:
I believe (no docs to confirm or deny this) it also is hard coded to pick
the first device it finds as the default output device. Since I relegated
the mobo's el simple chipset for use by skype et all, then installed an
Audigy2 for the real utility audio. But PA refuses to use the Audigy2.
So it gets nuked. And then sound Just Works(TM).
You can move any active stream on-the-fly to a different device. Just
right-click on it in pavucontrol. PA will then remember for later.
Also, you can easily make a different device default via paucontrol, too.
What is pavucontrol? It was never, ever, part of the kde menu's on this F8,
KDE-3.5.9 equipt x86 box. The tool may well work as advertised, but first it
has to be found before it can be used.
As Lennart tried to make reasonably clear, the primary
goal of
PulseAudio is NOT to act as a new API, but to act as a new
*infrastructure* that supports existing APIs transparently.
I am sure that he would be happy if it eventually takes over the world
and everybody writes apps using its API, but that doesn't appear to be
the goal right now.
The reason why I don't ask application developers at this time to
adopt the native PA API is that it is a relatively complex API since
all calls are asynchronous. It's comprehensive and not redundant, but
simply too complex for everyone but the most experienced.
Lennart I'd
complain, but there seems to be no path to the actual developers other
than Bugzilla, and my Bugzilla entries have been "won't fix"ed. If there
is no path from the user who finds his system crippled, leaving him no
choice but to nuke as much as he can in order to get any sound. That of
course is not conducive to actually getting it fixed.
rhbz? Ids?
If it's not rhbz or PA bts I won't get notice of it. Fix that, so
there is a working dialog path back from the user to the
developer, and maybe it can be made to work. As it is, the documentation
on it is non-existent, and we the users feel like we're battling with M$,
a generally futile endeavor, and that is gonna lead to a lot of profanity
& name calling. This is after all, linux, where choice is a talking
point.
Actaully there is quite a bit of documentation available. See
http://pulseaudio.org. Developer docs are here:
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pulseaudio/doxygen/ Sure, there can always be more documentation but quite
frankly PA
isn't that bad in this area.
Lennart
--
Cheers, Gene
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