16 May
2008
16 May
'08
6:43 p.m.
On Fri, 16 May 2008 23:23:12 +0100
"Chris Cannam" <cannam(a)all-day-breakfast.com> wrote:
On 16/05/2008, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com>
wrote:
From my experience, the ESD-option in the gui enables/disables PA.
There shouldn't be any other soundserver running, afaik.
PAs gui is quite strange, you need to start the PA-device chooser, then
(!)leftclick on the thing in the taskbar. Choose the volume control,
it's the only part of the control stuff I needed so far and contains
the controls one usually wants.
Go to the output devices-tab, rightclick on the device you want
to have as default device and you'll see a context menu with a single
checkbox reading 'Default'.
On the playback-tab you can change the output device of a 'playing' app
in the same manner.
Hope this helps.
I agree that it isn't really a big improvement, in parts because of the
strange gui, its bad integration into the desktop and the
incompatibility between PA and portaudio and similar problems.
Best Regards,
murks
Well, it works perfectly for me, on two separate
Ubuntu 8.04
machines, without hardware mixing, one using pulseaudio and one
using alsa + dmix.
By the way, to come back to this -- is there any way in the Ubuntu
config GUIs to find out which server/setup you're using? I have
everything set to Autoconfig, and according to "ps" I do have
pulseaudio running, but I don't see anything in the GUI to say so.
And although the GUI does mention ESD, I don't actually seem to have
ESD running regardless of whether it's enabled in the GUI or not.
Similarly, if I had more than one soundcard, where would I go to tell
pulseaudio which one to use?
I'm quite fond of the new Ubuntu, but as far as sound is concerned,
for me it really doesn't seem to be any improvement over earlier
distros.
Chris