5 May
2009
5 May
'09
10:05 a.m.
Hi,
Am I missing something?
Why doesn't pulse audio have a simple config gui for choosing the
default sound server and card order?
I tried using pulse device chooser but it doesn't list any cards or
devices or server options for me to choose from. Just has a radio button
for "default" or "other" and then asks me to input a name for the
"other" option.
Is there another gui that I could be using or is it expected that
pulseaudio users don't need to set anything as it will all be handled
magically by the system files?
Is this a planned feature on someones todo list or are desktop Linux
users just expected to edit config files manually for audio?
Cheers.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
5 May
5 May
10:22 a.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Hi,
Am I missing something?
Why doesn't pulse audio have a simple config gui for choosing the
default sound server and card order?
I tried using pulse device chooser but it doesn't list any cards or
devices or server options for me to choose from. Just has a radio button
for "default" or "other" and then asks me to input a name for the
"other" option.
Is there another gui that I could be using or is it expected that
pulseaudio users don't need to set anything as it will all be handled
magically by the system files?
Is this a planned feature on someones todo list or are desktop Linux
users just expected to edit config files manually for audio?
Cheers.
I'm not at home, so I can't check right now, but as far as i remember I
could configure most things from this panel applet. Note though, that
the user interface isn't always very intuitive. You sometimes have to
use a right click to get at an context menu in obscure places. Setting
the default sound card also happens via a context menu. The only
thing I configured in a config file was the jack sink.
Hope that helps,
Burkhard
11:03 a.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Why doesn't pulse audio have a simple config gui for choosing the
> default sound server and card order?
I was never able to find a way to specify card order with PulseAudio.
I've removed PulseAudio now, so I can't tell you exactly how to
specify the default sound card. But as Burkhard suggested, you can do
a right click on the GUI screen that shows the cards and check the
only box that shows up which says, "make default".
However that didn't help me when running various applications because
in those applications, PulseAudio would go with the first sound
chip/card in the PulseAudio chip/card order; and I was never able to
find a way to change that order.
My workaround to have PulseAudio not default to the motherboard sound
chip (so that all my applications would default to a PCI sound card)
was to enter the BIOS setup at reboot and disable the motherboard
sound chip. Talk about a drastic kludge!!! Maybe the PulseAudio
developers have realized by now that there can be more than one sound
chip/card in an user's system, and user selectable chip/card order is
a requirement for Linux audio, not a luxury.
Good luck.....
Stephen.
12:09 p.m.
TheOther wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Why doesn't pulse audio have a simple config gui for choosing the
>> default sound server and card order?
[...]
However that didn't help me when running various
applications because
in those applications, PulseAudio would go with the first sound
chip/card in the PulseAudio chip/card order; and I was never able to
find a way to change that order.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but you can move audio
streams (from different applications) between your cards and pulse audio
usualy remembers your decision. This is again in a context menu, I think
this time when you right click on the stream in the volume application.
Pulseaudio also acts sensibly when I remove my usb sound card - it plays
everything on the build in sound card.
Burkhard
11:45 p.m.
Burkhard Ritter wrote:
TheOther wrote:
This reminds me that I am not seeing this interface in the default
Fedora 10 toolset. I have used it on Fedora 8/9 but it seems to have
disappeared in 10.
What is the actual name of the applet?
Cheers.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Why doesn't pulse audio have a simple config gui for choosing the
>> default sound server and card order?
>>
[...]
However that didn't help me when running
various applications because
in those applications, PulseAudio would go with the first sound
chip/card in the PulseAudio chip/card order; and I was never able to
find a way to change that order.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but you can move audio
streams (from different applications) between your cards and pulse audio
usualy remembers your decision. This is again in a context menu, I think
this time when you right click on the stream in the volume application.
Pulseaudio also acts sensibly when I remove my usb sound card - it plays
everything on the build in sound card.
6 May
6 May
12:28 a.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Burkhard Ritter wrote:
I found it. On Fedora the volume applet and the pulse audio volume
applet have the same icon which is just a little confusing.
TheOther wrote:
This reminds me that I am not seeing this interface in the default
Fedora 10 toolset. I have used it on Fedora 8/9 but it seems to have
disappeared in 10.
What is the actual name of the applet?
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Why doesn't pulse audio have a simple config gui for choosing the
>> default sound server and card order?
>>
>>
[...]
However that didn't help me when running
various applications because
in those applications, PulseAudio would go with the first sound
chip/card in the PulseAudio chip/card order; and I was never able to
find a way to change that order.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but you can move audio
streams (from different applications) between your cards and pulse audio
usualy remembers your decision. This is again in a context menu, I think
this time when you right click on the stream in the volume application.
Pulseaudio also acts sensibly when I remove my usb sound card - it plays
everything on the build in sound card.
12:41 a.m.
Hi,
I have the pulse volume control applet running (not to be confused with
the volume control applet, btw).
I have an onboard hda-intel which is working almost perfectly (apart
from the known issue with the headphone output not always working).
I have the jack-sink and jack-source modules setup and apparently
running at least according to qjackctl.
I also have a usb-audio phone for skype.
In the pulse volume control interface...
- I have one option for output devices:
VOIP USB Phone
- I have three options for input devices:
jack source
VOIP USB Phone
HDA ATI SB - STAC92xx Analog
If I play mplayer -ao pulse it pops up in the playback tab and if I try
to move the stream there is still only one option for VOIP USB Phone.
If I remove the usb phone I get a Null Output in the output devices
section of the pulse audio volume applet...
Can someone shed some light on this please? Why can pulseaudio see the
three input options but only one output?
Cheers.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
9:21 p.m.
Patrick Shirkey schrieb:
Hi,
I have the pulse volume control applet running (not to be confused with
the volume control applet, btw).
I have an onboard hda-intel which is working almost perfectly (apart
from the known issue with the headphone output not always working).
I have the jack-sink and jack-source modules setup and apparently
running at least according to qjackctl.
I also have a usb-audio phone for skype.
In the pulse volume control interface...
- I have one option for output devices:
VOIP USB Phone
- I have three options for input devices:
jack source
VOIP USB Phone
HDA ATI SB - STAC92xx Analog
This is indeed strange. Do you see all devices in the devices tab of the
pulseaudio manager? What modules are loaded? For me it's
module-alsa-sink and -source for each sound card (onboard intel and usb
ua-25) so four in total. All this gets setup correctly with my standard
Ubuntu install which utilises just module-hal-detect (in
/etc/pulse/default.pa) to load all the aforementioned modules.
Does your pulseaudio work without the jack-modules loaded? I would try
this first. Note also, when you use the jack modules, jack usually grabs
the soundcard exclusively so the normal pulseaudio module-alsa-...
won't work for that sound card. I have a different pulseaudio config
file for jack which doesn't load the module-alsa-* modules, so all sound
goes over jack. You can also load and unload those modules at runtime
but a different config file and restarting pulseaudio seemed easier.
If I play mplayer -ao pulse it pops up in the playback
tab and if I try
to move the stream there is still only one option for VOIP USB Phone.
If I remove the usb phone I get a Null Output in the output devices
section of the pulse audio volume applet...
That's what I'd expect with your described scenario.
Cheers.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
Hope that makes any sense. Hope it helps.
Best,
Burkhard
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