pulseaudio, howto make it work?

[Chris Snook]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> Because many of you said to use it, it worked just fine, I
> re-installed it all and I haven't had any noise from anything but
> kmail and maybe kino since then, kino audio seemingly depending on
> the phase of the moon, day of thew week and possibly multiplied by
> the age of the raccoon I last killed, now many years ago.
> 
> Anyway, I'm like the other guy who said all he wants to do is play
> some fscking sound.  Looking up the various pieces in yumex to see
> what there might be for configuration helpers, I try several pieces
> but they return 0 output, and all seem to be killable with a ctl-c.
> 
> Until I get to padmin, now there is a real Super Informative Name.
> 
> padmin displays, on the server tab, a whole menu of alsa stuff, every
> one of which points into the nvidia chipsets builtin ac97 audio on
> this motgher board, and absolutely zero reference is made to the the
> SBO-400 Audigy 2 card that I actually use as the main sound system
> here, with the nvidia thingy being relegated for skype etc usage.
> 
> Now, many moons ago, I spent considerable time on this list arriving
> at an /etc/modprobe.conf stanza that made it all work the way I
> wanted it to work.  It looks like this: ------------------------- 
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-card-0 index=0 options
> snd-emu10k1 index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 options snd-card-1
> index=1 options snd-intel8x0 index=1 alias snd-card-2 snd-mpu401 
> options snd-card-2 index=2 options snd-mpu401 index=2 
> --------------------------
> 
> And if I can get enough of it killed and uninstalled, it will still
> work as I have done exactly that once before.
> 
> The pulseaudio wiki/web page has zero info on how to do this unless
> my speed reading is skipping over it somehow, but I've now been over
> it 5 or 6 times without anything raising its hand asking to go wiwi.
> 
> If it would help, I can snapshot and post the various screens padmin
> shows. Whoever wrote that gui seems to have left out the ability to
> clipboard the contents. 500 lashes with a wet noodle are in order for
> that omission.
> 
> Also, I get the impression this is an administration program, in
> which case I ought to be able to edit some of this, multiple choices
> based on the available hardware would be nice, but as near as I can
> tell, nothing is editable, so whyinhell call it an admin program when
> it can't?  Good question that..
> 
> So how do I go about making pulseaudio work like I want it to work?
> 
> URL's for answers is fine, but the pulseaudio web page I was pointed
> at before is effectively all advertising, and about as useful as
> those appendages on the belly of a boar hog.
> 
> :(
> 

I've always found that 'yum remove *pulse*' makes sound work properly 
under KDE in F8 and F9.

-- Chris