1 Oct
2008
1 Oct
'08
1:21 a.m.
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Tue, 30.09.08 11:28, Gene Heskett
(gene.heskett(a)verizon.net) wrote:
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.
It is available in the GNOME menus AFAIR. I do not maintain the Fedora
KDE packages and I have no idea how well or bad PA is integrated in KDE.
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. :)
rhbz = Red Hat Bugzilla (i.e. where you are supposed to report a bug
if you found one in Fedora, http://bugzilla.redhat.com)
Which is where I filed the first report, and got a "won't fix"
answer. I
don't recall the bz number atm.
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. 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. pa bts = PulseAudio Bug Tracker (i.e. where you are
suppoed to report
a bug if you found one in PulseAudio,
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Community#PatchesBugsTranslations)
Humm, is doesn't work considered a bug? :)
Lennart
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