23 Jun
2009
23 Jun
'09
1:38 p.m.
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
Oh it works fine on my lappy, IF you don't mind the audio being 3 words
behind the lips making the noise when watching a news clip from
cnn/fgox/abc/nbc/whoever.
I had to get rid of it to even get ANY sound on my main machine, which has at
least 3 audio systems in it, I simply could not convince it that the default
card to output to was the audigy2 (SBO400) card. The ASUS mobo audio just
doesn't cut it, and AFAICT, the 'hda' audio on my HD-2400 Pro video card is
not even bonded out.
PA probably works reasonably well for those who want to tinker with it for
each audio generating app they run. But put it into a multichannel/multicard
environment and it craps its pants.
Me, I just wanna see & hear the news from the tv peoples web sites like cnn
etc. Or play some music I ripped from my own CD's. For that, PA fails.
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
+10,000
PA is one of the biggest screwups ever, but red hat can't see it.
I don't think PA is a bad thing. On my laptop, PA works as follows:
1) takes care of general desktop stuff as needed
2) when JACKD connects directly to ALSA, PA ceases to play anything through
the audio card (who would want any "you got mails" in the middle of an audio
production anyhow?) but it also prevents other apps from complaining how
they cannot access the audio card.
Now, since I do not know enough about the innards of PA beyond couple of
conference slides, I cannot attest just how many apps actually are
intercepted by PA or if they are designed to gracefully ignore lack of
output, but to me this spells out a desktop experience the way it is
supposed to be. Granted, PA still has bugs to work out and I had it crap out
on me after couple standby/resume cycles at which point I simply had to
restart it. Other than that I had no noticeable problems with it.
So, I wonder if part of the problem could be hardware-specific (cannot
imagine how this would be the case, but then what else would cause such
divergent perception of PA?)
Ico