15 May
2009
15 May
'09
8:48 a.m.
Burkhard Ritter wrote:
TheOther wrote:
That's certainly one part of the issue. Although I find the applets are
quite handy when I'm using the correct one. In Fedora there is a "volume
control" and a "pulse vu control" which both have the same icon and are
similarly named as to be confusing. Also the pulse vu control is
accessed via the applicaations/sound and video menu where as the vu
control is accessed via System/Preferences/Hardware/
I personally feel that pulse vu control should be in the systems menu.
There is also a problem with the general negative attitude towards pulse
audio that can be seen when doing a search on the web for information
about how to make it work.
I think this negative feedback creates a negative user experience.
Cheers.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
From this (disabling the motherboard sound chip)
I inferred that
PulseAudio was developed as a means for helping Windows users transfer
to Linux in a painless manner. I'm assuming PulseAudio was never
intended to be useful for advanced Linux audio users, because it
wasn't checking for additional sound chips/cards/devices *and*
allowing the user to specify the order in which those sound
chips/cards/devices would be used. PulseAudio always defaulted to the
motherboard sound chip, and a fair number of Linux sound applications
always default to the default sound chip/card/device (which in the
case of PulseAudio will be the motherboard sound chip.) Hence, you're
having all this trouble in trying to use a special video/audio card
because PulseAudio and very likely your sound application are only
trying to use your motherboard sound chip, since that is the default.
Hope this helps,
Stephen.
This is just wrong. You can change the default card easily from the
pulseaudio applet, see a recent thread for details and discussion. I'm
beginning to suspect that the bad acceptance of Pulseaudio that's
perceivable at least on this list is in not a small part only due to bad
user interface design. Namely hiding major functionality in context
menus in obscure places.
Burkhard
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