29 Dec
2009
29 Dec
'09
11:30 p.m.
2009/12/29 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 16:21 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to write this up.
Just found this on the ubuntu wiki
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5931543
It sounds detailed and exhaustive but I am not sure how authoritative.
It would be real neat if some more authoritative figures could read
that and comment...
Thanks again and happy new year to all
Rustom
2009/12/28 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee(a)gmail.com>om>:
Sorry, no link for you, but here's my understanding.
Control of audio devices in Linux is done by ALSA ... On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 21:35 +0530, Rustom Mody
wrote:
That link basically says dont use pulseaudio (if you want to use nted)
I recently was introduced to nted
Tried it on my debian-lenny desktop and it works nicely.
But now need it on my laptop for a travel-demo session.
Now the laptop (was) running hardy which has some pulseaudio headaches.
In any case I had to upgrade because the clone monitor which is needed
for a presentation does not work in hardy
Now the headaches increase! Pulseaudio more and more tightly
integrated into ubuntu and nted (or is it timidity?) does not like it
at all.
Managed to remove pulse (with some associated packages)
nted works once again but I cant adjust volume and and clicks and
other ubuntu sounds which could be configured with
System->preferences->sound wont come up saying: Waiting for sound
system to respond.
Any suggestions?
Ubuntu sans Pulseaudio is a pain to get working. You'd probably have
better luck getting nted to run on pulseaudio.
A quick search reveals
http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/doc/ch01s50.html
Having never used nted before, I can't really comment much, but wouldn't
using JACK solve things, since pulseaudio now plays quite well with jack
(jackdmp, not jack 0.118 or whatever they're on now for jack1).
The last time I tried jack (this was on debian about a year back) my
sound stopped working. Of course Ive not idea how to use jack so Im
not complaining.
If you could tell me what packages to try Ill try and see.
Also (if some such thing is there) I would very much like to see
something about linux sound architecture. IOW jack, pulse and esd all
seem to be 'servers' of some sort and (from what you say) jack seems
to work well with pulse but pulse and esd are an either-or. So whats
the bigger picture of all this.