ubuntu 12.04 sound problem

[Russell Reiter]

A general consensus of opinion I have noticed in these sound issues is that
pulseaudio has been adopted by Ubuntu as a proxy server somewhat
prematurely. Notwithstanding all the historical difficulties of configuring
alsa and oss by hand and the higher level of difficulty of configuring
other audio mappers like Jack, I think the legacy support in pulseaudio is
somewhat lacking.

On a more modern computer running Fedora 18 pulse works perfectly. On my
own older computer running Debian, I removed pulse. It seems there are
problems with the config files getting borked both on an initial install
and after the fact. This in fact might be a problem with udev's initial
abstraction of the sound hardware.

>From my perspective it really is plug and pray still at this point. There
are just so many nontransparent sound sinks which exist to support surround
sound, so forth.

Jack is a good professional audio tool for these sink mappings, but if udev
doesn't name the devices consistently on each boot or PnP connection then
there can be problems creating a stable hardware slab. Jack and pulse can
co-exist, but thats a whole other can of worms.

It's a bit of a pain to have to write a new udev rule for every sound
device which may be connected, but that seems to be the state of things at
the moment.







On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:52:57AM -0400, Stewart Russell wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>   On 18 Jul 2013 10:12, "Russell Reiter" <[1]rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>   >
>>   > The problem may be with pulseaudio.
>>
>
> Running pulse manually in verbose mode can help find the problem.
>
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