<div dir="ltr"><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div>hi.</div></div><div><div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Eli Billauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@billauer.co.il">eli@billauer.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello all,<br>
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I've been doing some sound editing lately on my FC12, just to discover that there is a new annoyance in town, namely Pulseaudio.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio</a><br>
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I discovered it when Audacity failed to play back files or made choppy noises. Other applications also seem to get messed up with this piece of I-don't-know-what.<br>
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My first instinct is to kick it out of my system, but since Fedora is a system for experts (are they going to open a Red Hat University soon?) I don't really know how to do that and what consequences I may face. I mean, it's not so easy to just shut down. Killing the server makes it restart (as a matter of fact, killall -9 pulseaudio has become my catch-all solution for audio problems lately). And I haven't even figured out how to disable this restart mechanism.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>don't kick it. many packages depend on it.</div><div>gnome, kde...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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And unfortunately, with all those fancy graphs and fluffy talk about generalized everything, I haven't gotten to grasp how the machinery ticks. Are there any special files? Domain sockets? What?<br>
<br></blockquote><div>forget it :)</div><div><br></div><div>please explain what do you do with audio,</div><div>maybe it makes sense to make sure you have the right version of audacity (or additional packages for its pulseaudio support installed)</div>
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Does anyone have insights about this? Is there any reason why this audio server could be really useful, except for all the fine words said about it? Weren't things OK as they were in the good old times, when audio was just /dev/dsp?<br>
<br></blockquote><div>there were many problems back then. it was old oss interface with no parallel device access, and many other problems.</div><div>you may try using oss v4, but I doubt fedore included a pulse audio package with support to oss v.4</div>
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But most important of all: Should I give this thing a mighty kick in the bottom? And if so, how?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>don't do that. see the 1st remark.</div><div><br></div><div>please specify your work tasks.</div>
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Thanks,<br>
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Eli<br><font color="#888888">
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