PulseAudio

[Tyler Aviss]

One thing I *do* still use pulse for is tying into Bluez for bluetooth
A2DP or SCO audio. I haven't figured out a convenient way to do that
in ALSA yet, otherwise I'd dump pulse pretty quick on most of my
boxen.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Eric Battersby <gyre-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I disabled PulseAudio, in Fedora and never looked back.
> It would stop working after a few minutes.
> Here is one log message:
>  cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload
> I am only using ALSA now.
>
> To remove it, I ran this (from some linux page):
>        rpm -e pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-x11
>        pulseaudio-module-zeroconf pulsaudio-esound-compat
>        pulseaudio-module-lirc pulseaudio-module-jack
>        pulseaudio-module-gconf paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter
>        paman pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
>        kde-settings-pulseaudio fluxbox-pulseaudio
>        alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
> - that seemed to work
> - why didn't I do a yum erase?
>  - don't know now, but you want to be careful not to remove
>    too many dependencies
> - my volume control disappeared; I use alsamixer for that
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Tyler Aviss wrote:
>
>> Heck no. If it worked with ALSA before, it should work after.
>>
>> A couple other things to check
>>  /etc/modprobe.d entries for ALSA (you might want to remove old
>> entries, purge the main ALSA packages, reinstall)
>>  try sound from commandline before logging in, so that you're just on
>> ALSA without Pulse possibly stealing the device
>>
>> Some useful commands:
>>  aplay -l : lists soundcards that ALSA knows
>>  alsamixer : commandline mixer useful for configuring prior to
>> getting into gnome/pulse. Use "m" for mute/unmute and arrows for
>> volume, tab for navigation
>>  aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav  : test sound (alsa)
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Thomas Milne
>> <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm waiting for a reply back from work with some more info/command
>>> output from dmesg and lspci and so on. I'll get them to also check if
>>> pulse is even running, didn't think of that.
>>>
>>> So you've never had to go the OSS route?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I found a couple things when updating to karmic on various machines
>>>> that could case this:
>>>>  - Gnome/pulse found a different "default" soundcard than what they
>>>> should have
>>>>  - PA set the volume to nothing in the sound panel mixer, or turned on
>>>> mute
>>>>  - Wrong "profile" in the hardware settings of the sound prefs
>>>>
>>>> If you have a .asoundrc file in your homedir you may need to nuke that
>>>> too
>>>>
>>>> Are you seeing your soundcard? Is the pulseaudio daemon loading?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Thomas Milne
>>>> <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ha! So it finally got to me. So far on my home machine it's been no
>>>>> problem, so I've been wondering why everyone hates Pulse so much.
>>>>>
>>>>> Until now. At work we upgraded all the machines to Karmic Koala and
>>>>> now a lot of them have no sound. If you saw how we do our jobs, you
>>>>> would understand what a horrifying thing this is ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyhow, I remember some threads on here a while ago about fixing this
>>>>> by using good 'ol OSS, but as these are work computers I thought I
>>>>> would ask before I start trying some of the solutions. Is this really
>>>>> the tried and true method?
>>>>>
>>>>> I also found this link. Anyone else solve it like this?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1395089
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> TBM
>>>>> --
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Tyler Aviss
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