20 Sep
2009
20 Sep
'09
1:44 p.m.
Hi. I am trying to modify a version of easy peasy Linux so that it is more accessible on
my netbook (an Acer Aspire1). Easy peasy is a derivative of Ubuntu and I am currently
having problems with pulse audio. When using pulseaudio speech was a little laggy (even
after switching to using speech-dispatcher). I also had some orca crashes, who's
source is still unknown to me, though I have been informed it is probably because I am
using a netbook.
When I use Alsa I still have the odd orca crash but this is usually easy to resolve simply
by restarting orca, or killing and restarting speech-dispatcher. The problem is I have no
system sounds and I get an Alsa error when trying to log in to Skype through the terminal,
some problem with bluetooth something. I can paste the error later if it is of any
use/reference.
I am now using Alsa but can't seem to get multi channel sounds, I.E speech and/or
system sounds, I only have speech.
Any help fixing these issues and suggestions for alternative configurations/audio systems
would be appreciated.
Many thanks in advance
Jen!
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20 Sep
20 Sep
1:52 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jennifer
<fluffy_bunny_1988(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Hi. I am trying to modify a version of easy peasy
Linux so that it is more
accessible on my netbook (an Acer Aspire1). Easy peasy is a derivative of
Ubuntu and I am currently having problems with pulse audio. When using
pulseaudio speech was a little laggy (even after switching to using
speech-dispatcher). I also had some orca crashes, who's source is still
unknown to me, though I have been informed it is probably because I am using
a netbook.
When I use Alsa I still have the odd orca crash but this is usually easy to
resolve simply by restarting orca, or killing and restarting
speech-dispatcher. The problem is I have no system sounds and I get an Alsa
error when trying to log in to Skype through the terminal, some problem with
bluetooth something. I can paste the error later if it is of any
use/reference.
I am now using Alsa but can't seem to get multi channel sounds, I.E speech
and/or system sounds, I only have speech.
ALSA and PulseAudio are not alternatives to each other. PulseAudio uses ALSA.
2:02 p.m.
Jennifer wrote:
I am now using Alsa but can't seem to get multi
channel sounds,
I.E speech and/or system sounds, I only have speech.
You need to buy a proper sound card with hardware mixing (e.g.
SB Audigy) or configure Alsa to do software mixing. Why modern
distributions don't configure this properly on their own puzzles
me, but they probably just throw in the horrible PulseAudio
without thinking a lot about it.
Oh wait, I just saw an nice bit of news: ALSA 1.0.9rc2 or later
supports software mixing by default, but you probably don't have
that version yet.
The bottom line is that you need to write the proper incantation
into some text file. I don't need that so I'll leave that to
the others to explain who have such a setup...
Cheers,
Leslie
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4:48 p.m.
Pulseaudio:
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On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Leslie P. Polzer
<sky(a)viridian-project.de>wrote;wrote:
Jennifer wrote:
I am now using Alsa but can't seem to get
multi channel sounds,
I.E speech and/or system sounds, I only have speech.
You need to buy a proper sound card with hardware mixing (e.g.
SB Audigy) or configure Alsa to do software mixing. Why modern
distributions don't configure this properly on their own puzzles
me, but they probably just throw in the horrible PulseAudio
without thinking a lot about it.
Oh wait, I just saw an nice bit of news: ALSA 1.0.9rc2 or later
supports software mixing by default, but you probably don't have
that version yet.
The bottom line is that you need to write the proper incantation
into some text file. I don't need that so I'll leave that to
the others to explain who have such a setup...
Cheers,
Leslie
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6:19 p.m.
I'm sorry but I don't understand your message. Did it get scrambled or is this
some code I should put somewhere?
From: Giorgio
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:48 PM
To: leslie.polzer(a)gmx.net
Cc: Jennifer ; linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] Alsa or pulseaudio?
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^*$$c ^$c $$$ 4J$$$$$% $$$ .e*".eeP"
"$$$$$$"'$=e....$*$$**$cz$$" "..d$*"
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$.d$$$* * J$$$e*
""""" "$$$"
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Leslie P. Polzer <sky(a)viridian-project.de> wrote:
Jennifer wrote:
I am now using Alsa but can't seem to get multi
channel sounds,
I.E speech and/or system sounds, I only have speech.
You need to buy a proper sound card with hardware mixing (e.g.
SB Audigy) or configure Alsa to do software mixing. Why modern
distributions don't configure this properly on their own puzzles
me, but they probably just throw in the horrible PulseAudio
without thinking a lot about it.
Oh wait, I just saw an nice bit of news: ALSA 1.0.9rc2 or later
supports software mixing by default, but you probably don't have
that version yet.
The bottom line is that you need to write the proper incantation
into some text file. I don't need that so I'll leave that to
the others to explain who have such a setup...
Cheers,
Leslie
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6:31 p.m.
Jennifer!
It looks like an ascii graphic to me. But I would't be able to test this
theroy.
Kindest regards
Julien
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10:40 p.m.
Sorry guys it was just a joke. It was a skull painted with ascii code. ;)I
think that the only interesting feature in pulseaudio is the server-client
structure which lets you control another audio device through the net.
If you are using linux for audio pro (for example if u use more than a sound
card), pulseaudio can be very annoying if you are tryin' to set up your DAW
especially if you are running ubuntu.
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Julien Claassen <julien(a)c-lab.de> wrote:
Jennifer!
It looks like an ascii graphic to me. But I would't be able to test this
theroy.
Kindest regards
Julien
--------
Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles)
======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ========
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======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: =======
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29 Sep
29 Sep
1:32 p.m.
Hi list. I am still having problems getting my sound to work properly (or as I would like
it). Currently I can play speech or something else but I can't have speech and any
other kind of sound together. I have upgraded my distro to 9.04 and switched from the EEE
kernel to a generic Kernel. I am now also running version 1.0.21 of the Alsa driver,
library and Utils. Would this now have Dmix by default and if so I'm guessing I need
to do some configuration in order to get multi channel sound.
I don't really know much about sound or working with Alsa so if any-one knows some
links to some fairly simple documentation that can give me the building blocks I may need
to try and fix this problem that would be great.
Thanks
Jen!
From: Jennifer
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:19 PM
To: Giorgio ; leslie.polzer(a)gmx.net
Cc: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] Alsa or pulseaudio?
I'm sorry but I don't understand your message. Did it get scrambled or is this
some code I should put somewhere?
From: Giorgio
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:48 PM
To: leslie.polzer(a)gmx.net
Cc: Jennifer ; linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] Alsa or pulseaudio?
Pulseaudio: .ed"""" """$$$$be.
-" ^""**$$$e.
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$ * .$$$$$$
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"*$b. "c *$e. *** d$$$$$"L$$ .d" e$$***"
^*$$c ^$c $$$ 4J$$$$$% $$$ .e*".eeP"
"$$$$$$"'$=e....$*$$**$cz$$" "..d$*"
"*$$$ *=%4.$ L L$ P3$$$F $$$P"
"$ "%*ebJLzb$e$$$$$b $P"
%.. 4$$$$$$$$$$ "
$$$e z$$$$$$$$$$%
"*$c "$$$$$$$P"
."""*$$$$$$$$bc
.-" .$***$$$"""*e.
.-" .e$" "*$c ^*b.
.=*"""" .e$*" "*bc "*$e..
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$.d$$$* * J$$$e*
""""" "$$$"
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Leslie P. Polzer <sky(a)viridian-project.de> wrote:
Jennifer wrote:
I am now using Alsa but can't seem to get multi
channel sounds,
I.E speech and/or system sounds, I only have speech.
You need to buy a proper sound card with hardware mixing (e.g.
SB Audigy) or configure Alsa to do software mixing. Why modern
distributions don't configure this properly on their own puzzles
me, but they probably just throw in the horrible PulseAudio
without thinking a lot about it.
Oh wait, I just saw an nice bit of news: ALSA 1.0.9rc2 or later
supports software mixing by default, but you probably don't have
that version yet.
The bottom line is that you need to write the proper incantation
into some text file. I don't need that so I'll leave that to
the others to explain who have such a setup...
Cheers,
Leslie
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3:01 p.m.
Hi Jen,
Jennifer wrote:
Hi list. I am still having problems getting my sound
to work properly (or as I would
like it). Currently I can play speech or something else but I can't have speech and
any
other kind of sound together. I have upgraded my distro to 9.04 and switched from the
EEE kernel to a generic Kernel. I am now also running version 1.0.21 of the Alsa driver,
library and Utils. Would this now have Dmix by default and if so I'm guessing I need
to
do some configuration in order to get multi channel sound.
As far as I understood it (from http://alsa.opensrc.org/DmixPlugin) it should
be working out of the box. From what you wrote now it doesn't seem to be. :(
So you need to set it up manually. You can find a howto on the aforementioned
page, i.e. http://alsa.opensrc.org/DmixPlugin
Hope that helps,
Leslie
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