Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

[Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 Dec 2011 00:16:31 Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote:
> > The idea behind pulseaudio is live switching of streams. ALSA is great
> > if you have only one audio card, but as soon as you introduce a
> > bluetooth headset, a headphone, a HDMI display with sound output, ALSA
> > can't handle real time stream redirection. Sure, you can use scripts
> > to toggle .asoundrc profiles, but even then you'll need to restart the
> > softwares that produce audio.
> > Here I have a HDMI display (an hdtv) and a headphone. I mostly send my
> > audio to my tv, but if I'm using the computer late at night, or if I'm
> > to listen to high volume music, I'd switch the affecting streams to my
> > headphone, without the need to mess with sound configuration files and
> > to restart my sound engine.
> >
> > PulseAudio is to audio what X.org is to video: stream mixing software.
>
> I see ... so for many use cases that do not require to selectively modify
> the
> volume of different outputs, pulseaudio is really not necessary at all (I
> can
> always plug/unplug an earphone jack or what not).  That would not make
> pulseaudio the default selection IMHO, but anyway - isn't that what jack is
> used for?  Is pulseaudio another jack application?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>


Now I've got another problem: how to revert back to simple alsa...

Thanks!
Francisco

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