audio problems in 10.10

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 20:38 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote: 
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie at gnix.co.uk> wrote:
> >> >
> >> I strongly urge you to look back through the archives of this list -
> >> this subject has been discussed at length many times.
> >
> > i searched the internet before posting and have already read through some similar stuff posted in the past. i would like to know if i need to install a driver, if so where can i get, etc. a lot of the stuff i read dated back to 2008/09 so maybe it's not relevent now.
> >
> > can anyone help?
> >
> Yeah, I get frustrated with that, too.  You'd think there would be an
> easy to find at least one link for searches on this list, something
> I've not found.  (I admit I haven't looked too hard, either.  Gary
> seems to know where they all are.)
> 
> General discussions rotate around removing the pulse audio system and
> just using the underlying ALSA drivers and apps, which is what works
> for me on two (very) different U10.10 machines.  OTOH, what sound I
> have on my U10.10 laptop works fine as installed, so I dunno.
> 
> I wasn't trying to put you off, but as Ric pointed out, this really
> has been done to death here.  Strange that it isn't easier to locate.

When pulse works, it's great. Love it to death and I used to absolutely
loathe it. I wish I could find a rig that it didn't work on and poke at
it a bit, to see if I could fix it. Alsa HAS to be working first. All
pulse does is send the signal to the appropriate input/output via the
alsa layer, on the fly. When I'm playing a DVD through my 5.1 sound
system, and everyone else wants to sleep, I just click on my headphones
and it's there, without missing a beat. I do not know of an alsa
application to do that same trick with. So, if at all possible, and if
you have more than one input/output, you'll need pulse. If you have one
mike and one set of speakers. you could do without pulse. Ric



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