1 Oct
2010
1 Oct
'10
12:39 a.m.
Pulseaudio is still in alpha and just doesn't work with m-audio
soundcards (or anything using the ICE1712 chipset). Quite why the big
distros have adopted it and still insist that it works is beyond me.
You could try bugging ubuntu or pulseaudio devs about it but many of
us have been banging our heads against that particular brick wall for
about 2.5 years now; they just keep blaming each other and/or alsa
(which is obviously not to blame cos alsa without pulse just works).
I've abandoned the otherwise brilliant Ubuntu and moved to Arch Linux
because of this ongoing farce. As a beginner with accessibility issues
I'd hesitate to recommend you doing the same.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/178442
contains various workarounds and a heck of a lot of VERY justified
griping.
PS if anyone from Canonical or Pulseaudio follows this mailing list,
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE sort it out NOW. Once and for all. The
fixes are out there, it's can't be hard from a dev's point of view.
This issue is making you all look like stubborn uncaring idiots. The
ICE1712 hardware isn't going to change, and we're not about to stop
using it.
On 30 September 2010 21:20, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder(a)lavabit.com> wrote:
Excerpts from Robin Gareus's message of 2010-09-30
13:17:01 +0200:
It looks like your main problem boils down to
wrong numbering of the
sound-cards. This has been a long standing issue on Linux and there are
a few ways around it:
1) If the numbering is consistent on each boot: you can simply not care
about the number and configure all audio-software to use whatever ID.
2) the "modern way" using udev: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Udev
3) the "old way" using module load options:
http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07809.html
Another way to do it might be to use the interfaces name instead of the
number. At least with jack this works fine, as long as you don't have
two interfaces with the same name. If you use names, numbers don't
matter and they can (and usually will) change on boot as much as they
want to.
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