From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 255CA138010 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5530AE072C; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gh0-f181.google.com (mail-gh0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686FCE0712 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:19:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghz3 with SMTP id 3so5548920ghz.40 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:19:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9BX31uVfpqjkpBel1C+rHf4K4rcKANn9FVeqtqPkK6c=; b=qBVfo0P9i4m3QLfsW3+PYbP3LK5dViHc1Vt4k9ne/5r5fuYOT/WsRc9G5qYjhucUQZ poN4KdBiPeqkp+V8ii6iqRG4N7zNv5fo5PAxOEZdoMUqa4NQYYQsVIVRkMjL5r5K6FuO zGq2gtw5qBEcmYGsHTNr8SRFJqnOh7ZA4hEtZMTLUi4pdWnETtwjwc1P5uhOnxc87W+p RytLN/eiN9MGjKHll+MNq/aA9uPmc0Q+aArA0QvAUDE3nhBhEQwELr9NEXD+kgxrxlpC rrbS83+LXGL4rpRWswyk24h1S12fuweHjNUUhofamxX+nHcwMrfnzrTEPJlKDP7i2WuQ CnQA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.131.146 with SMTP id m18mr18995647yhi.65.1345432757793; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.194.7 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:19:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:19:17 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems? From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 32e30303-267f-4e12-bc0c-4e5c88e68fdd X-Archives-Hash: 4ac5fe35c2c25a874a8bc8bd2fa47616 On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Jo=C3=A3o Matos wrote: > Hi list. > > The KDE phonon can't work properly when I plug a USB audio card (like a > webcam with microphone) neither recognize my bluetooth headset. > > When I used to try to use my webcam microphone, phonon got lost every tim= e > I've reboot the system. It always asked me to forget the devices, as if > there were new sound cards every time the system rebooted. It also wasn't > able to decide which should be the default sound card. Sometimes it guess= ed > correctly, most the time not. Other problems: when kde had the control of= a > device, none application outside kde were able to use it, as skype or > mplayer. > > The solution I found then was to disable the support from my webcam's aud= io > card on kernel. Without the USB card support, my system get back to norma= l > behavior and I was able to use the webcam. Of course, it was kinda extrem= e. > > So, I was wondering if use pulseaudio should fix it, but I'm not sure if = it > can help. What do you think? > > Any help will be appreciated. I've been using GNOME + PulseAudio since the later become stable in Gentoo. Could not be more happy: my usecase is very similar to yours: I have a BT headset, and a pair of USB speakers, which include a sound card. With PulseAudio, the USB speakers works automagically; I don't need to do anything, and I can change with a click where the audio goes out, either the included speakers, or the USB ones. With the BT headset I just need to pair it in the GNOME Bluetooth settings, and it's the same, I can change where the audio streams go with one click, and also set it per application. I also use PA in my Media Center, and the audio quality is... pretty much the same that without PA, but you get a lot of benefits. Just take in mind that I use GNOME; I do not know how different (if at all) it will be with KDE. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico