On 05/10/13 22:34, Juan Erbes wrote:
2013/10/4 Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar
: Answering $SUBJ:
But, what is the better option?
Leave pulse-audio enabled by default, or disabled?
By mi experience, is better leave pulse-audio disabled by default, because many audio configurations problems are resolved by disable it.
Regards, Juan
Let me say at the start that I disable, or uninstall, pulseaudio because *I* have no need for it. I only need alsa to get the sound I need from vlc to vew DVDs, listen to CDs, or view video clips online. However, if you have the need to use multiple sources of sound - eg, when recording music from a number or sources at the same time - then you need pulseaudio which is capable of handling more than one source of sound. Since pulseaudio sits ON TOP of alsa you need to get alsa working to begin with to set the sound card/chip and activate or mute channels and after this is done you get pulseaudio to work by installing *PAVUCONTROL* which is not installed by default but has to be manually installed in YaST. Having pulseaudio without pavucontrol is like having a car without a motor so install pavucontrol. To get your sound card/chip working you need to install alsamixer (use F5 & F6, etc) and you need to either disable or uninstall pulseaudio BEFORE running alsamixer because pulseaudio makes alsamixer crap out by suppressing the display of all the available channels - only 2 or 3 channels are shown if pulseaudio is enabled. But get rid of pulseaudio and all the channels available on your sound card/chip become visible and configurable. At one point you could NOT uninstall pulseaudio as doing so also bombed out alsa but now you can remove pulseaudio - or leave it alone but disable it (YaST>Sound>Other>Disable Pulseaudio (or some such words). BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org