PulseAudio info needed

[Jason Farrell]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> --- On Fri, 11/28/08, dexter <dex.mbox at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: dexter <dex.mbox at googlemail.com>
> > Subject: Re: PulseAudio info needed
> > To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <
> fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 7:13 AM
> > On Fri November 28 2008 14:05:00 Fulko Hew wrote:
> > > a) The KDE launch and shutdown sounds should not
> > stutter.
> >
> > I've been seeing this on all my pulseaudio free systems
> > for quite sometime
> > since ~KDE 4.0.x, startup stutters & fails but after
> > that its all good.
> > search the upstream bugzilla for reports.
> >
> > ...dex
> >
> >
> >
> > --
>
> I have seen the sound stuttering with pulseaudio on, I just left it there
> and it complains that ..... sound falling back on ..... and then I try
> playing something and it works.  What I notice also except when the sound
> was not woking on most systems, the sound was muted and we could not hear
> anything, error probably with udev and thankfully it was fixed :), the alsa
> output sometimes fails and the system falls back on oss, some snd_hda.??
> codecs :(
> It is not a bulletproof system, but when it works, it works ok, but when it
> does not work, it gets trashed because people need sound to work, and it
> definitely gets in the way :(
>
> See this sound stuttering with PA on in both GNOME and KDE.  I use both so
> I won't discriminate against either one :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>

FWIW - Pulseaudio worked great for me in F8 and F9 (except for some minor
annoyances such play/pause lag at one point in F8, and Miro -> xine -> PA
hangs in both), but in 'glitch-free' F10, on the same hardware (audigy2
card), I could't for the life of me get rid of the constant buffer
underruns.

So, a 'yum remove pulseaudio' later, and a few config tweaks in kde,
mplayer, and xine, and all's well again.

They say pulseaudio brings out the worst in the emu10k driver; I wonder why
it waited until now.

-- 
Jason "zcat" Farrell
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