On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On a related note because my ubuntu laptop runs nted it cannot run
> pulseaudio.  Because it cannot run pulseaudio no other audio works.
> If we are talking of the state of linux audio maybe a small mention of the
> pulseaudio saga would not be out of place?

To go off-topic, what is the reason nted cannot work with pulseaudio?
If its jack-only or alsa-only there's still no problem getting
pulseaudio to work in those scenarios.

From the nted docs:
http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/nted/doc/ch01s50.html

Actually this is a timidity issue.
Ive got timidity to play with jack (on another system)
And I believe jack works with (or shuts up) pulseaudio so I need to try the jack route.

On the whole though I am now switching from ubuntu to debian which is more well behaved as far as I can see.

[My current modus operandi is to use ubuntu live to partition, grub and generally check out a new system. Then install debian.  Any better suggestions are welcome :-) ]