Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[eddie <eddieleprince@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 16:43 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 09/01/12 13:46, Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 23:27 +0100, Smartysmart34 wrote:
> > > My experience with sound (esp. Microphone) on Linux: Get rid of
> > > Pulseaudio as fast as possible. Fixed it for me with Suse 11.1, 11.2 and
> > > 11.4.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Martin
> > >
> > > Am 08.01.2012 20:59, schrieb xPol:
> > > > As i tested my skype service on lenovo z570 opensuse 12.1, i
> > > > heard a rather disturbing noise.
> > > > I have tried to fix the microphone audio channel, by inspecting devices
> > > > through Kmix, but i am not an expert at all. What i can report is:
> > > > Capture device is 'Internal Audio Analog Stereo' , with volume almost
> > > > at its max level.
> > > > Capture Streams shows no device.
> > > >
> > > > In the system settings, Phonon seems to be ok.
> > > > Same noise, switching from gstreamer to xine backend
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Any microphone testing utility?
> > > >
> > > > thank you
> > > > Paolo
> > I find that getting rid of Pulse Audio is the most surefire way to screw
> > things up and make audio management painful and complicated.
>
> Horse manure :-) . The first thing I ever do is to get rid of pulseaudio 
> - or at least disable it in YaST Hardware/Sound[#] - and install 
> alsamixergui and then configure my sound card. Pulseaudio is an 
> abomination - but some people swear by it. I swear AT it.
>
> At this moment I am running 12.1 with NO pulseaudio in sight. All my 
> sound works: TV, music, DVD, and in glorious 5.1 sound (if the medium 
> has it).


I would like to second that.  Couldn't get my sound working without
getting rid of pulseaudio.  Now it is the first thing I do when I setup
or upgrade my system.  For me, pulseaudio is nothing but headache.

Eddie

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