Fedora sound nightmare (Pulseaudio)

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Fri Mar 14 17:15:38 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 23:09 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 23:25 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > But as I explained, the gstreamer plugin for PA would just
> > > output the sound to my USB headphones, not the system speakers.
> > 
> > Even after what I mentioned in 2) ?
> 
> Yes, even after you mentioned 2). It's true, I can move the
> streams individually to the ALSA output, and that seems to
> work fine (but without Lennart's help, I didn't figure it out,
> because if you just open pavucontrol there's no stream listed
> there if no app is playing silently in the background).

You can also right-click on the output device in the "output device"
tab, and select one of those as the default. There's no need to move
each stream by hand to another device...

<snip>
> And no, I have no ill will towards PA. In fact I really appreciate
> the work Lennart is doing to improve sound. But I am frustrated
> by what I've been put through with this sound business. Anybody
> in my place would have been. It'll pass...

In that case, step away from the computer. Computers frustrate everyone,
but there's no point passing your anger onto other people by venting
your frustration on a mailing-list. It just brings more bad vibes to the
discussion.

Cheers




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