[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS
>>>> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead.
>>>
>>> sure?
>>
>> Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.html
>>
>> PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as a
>> dep :-/  Will file a bug about it.
>>
>> As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot
>> compete with OSS4's vmix.  But it isn't worse than stand-alone ALSA+dmix
>> though, which is surprising.
>>
>> Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working.  That is, it loads OK, but
>> there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend.
>> The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops
>> and crackles).  Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA?  I tried to
>> set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still no sound.
>
> yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA.

"audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/


> Why again are you wasting your time with PA?

Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4.  So I ought to 
actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup", 
or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about.