On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:37, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
In 11.4 pulseaudio is the default sound system. It's a first, so it's not perfect, it does not integrate that well with the rest of the sound utils as alsa did.
I am actually finding - at least with the sound requirements I have - that PulseAudio is finally working nicely in openSUSE. PulseAudio has been around for a few years now, and it really has been a disaster in the past... now though, with the KDE integration it's a LOT better. It's pretty simple to go into the Sound config and set sound categories to use specific sound devices (eg Skype to use the USB Headset). Try that in Ubuntu and you'll learn some new swear words (ie you cannot in a default install, you have to add a very broken unintuitive PA device tool).
If this annoys you, you can erase pulseaudio entirely and run with alsa. That would be exactly as the same as in 11.3
See here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674372
ALSA still works too, and is, for now, still a valid option... it does require a small measure of work to set up (ie remove PA, install ALSA). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org