Re: [LAU] wine and sound

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:12 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008, Dave Phillips wrote:
>
> > rosea grammostola wrote:
>
> > > Is pulseaudio useful? or can I remove it?
>
> >
>
> > I've only used Pulseaudio in the context of a review of media
> players
>
> > for Ubuntu 8.04. At that time and for that purpose it performed
> fine,
>
> > but I don't know how it interoperates with JACK or other servers.
> AFAIK
>
> > you can remove it, but you'll probably find that it's a dependency
> for
>
> > many other apps. Boo-hiss for that factor. :(
>
> >
>
> > I'm learmning about Ubuntu 8.10 now as a matter of necessity. So far
> so
>
> > good, but I've yet to muck about with the Pulseaudio stuff. Nothing
>
> > against the software itself, but I don't need it, don't want it, and
>
> > would like to cleanly remove it.
>
> Pulseaudio itself is quite useful, though i don't use it myself. There
> however _is_ a problem with the ubuntu way of using it. They use a
> virtual PCM device for pulseaudio and make it the _default_ pcm device
> vie /etc/asound.conf. On my system this effectively kills all sound,
> as it uses the modem device i have in my system.. Thus all alsa app go
> through my onboard modem. I didn't find a way to change this. So in my
> login scripts i now have
>
> killall pulseaudio
>
> as an effective solution ;) Another would be to edit /etc/asound.conf
>

I have found that using pulse audio volume control gives me a handy
little interface that I can set the stream to point to the correct card
per application.

The first time I use an app I just need to make sure it is being
directed through the correct device.

> Flo
>
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