On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:40:07 -0400
Dennis Gallien
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:13 AM Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:25:02 -0400, Dennis Gallien
wrote: So can PA be disabled in 12.2 as in previous versions?
Why, in most cases I encountered PA wasn't realy the culprit. And without PA you loose things like application specific volume.
Philipp
But there have been *many* reports from users having problems with PA, at least in past releases.
Hi Dennis, As of openSUSE 11.4 I've found PA to be extremely flexible and stable. There is a learning curve, of course. I'd recommend investing the time needed to become acquainted with it, including watching lots of the PA tutorials posted on YouTube, and, reading -- at least making an attempt to read -- all of the available documentation. The available GUIs(*) need more explanatory / clarifying menus and options labels, but they're fully functional. IMHO, the command line interface (man pacmd) and help/documentation are either overwhelming in complexity or too sparse for the uninitiated. It /has/ improved over time, though. What I enjoy most is the ability to 'pipe' and control, including filtering / processing, individual application outputs and inputs without having to install jack -- using my existing, 'plain vanilla' on-board duplex stereo sound subsystem. (*) Here are the pulseaudio and related packages that I have installed (disclaimer: I don't necessarily /use/ all of them ... yet.): carl@linux:~> rpm -qa | grep pulse libpulse0-32bit-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 libpulse-browse0-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 pulseaudio-equalizer-2.7rev4-1.1.noarch vlc-aout-pulse-1.1.13-13.8.x86_64 libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 libxine1-pulse-1.1.20.1-60.2.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 mpg123-pulse-1.13.7-1.1.x86_64 alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit-1.0.24-6.1.x86_64 audacious-plugins-output-pulse-3.1.1-1.4.x86_64 pulseaudio-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.24-6.1.x86_64 libpulse0-0.9.22-6.11.1.x86_64 hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org