Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Thu Sep 11 15:29:13 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 20:56 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I have a lot of seemingly pulse audio related issues on my F9 desktop.
> Since  I really like the idea behind Pulseaudio, I would like to see
> these get sorted out, and would like to know how I can help in terms
> of providing useful information.
> 
> Here is my situation
> 
> * Sounblaster Live 5.1 PCI -- has full 6 channel audio before, I had
> for a short while after enabling it as per the pulseaudio wiki, but no
> more
> * Tvtime -- no audio (doing `padsp sox -r 48000 -w -c 2 -t ossdsp
> /dev/dsp -t ossdsp /dev/dsp` works, but causes noticeable lag)
> * Amarok (xine) -- audio, susceptible to crashes, esp when I scroll to
> fast in Firefox
> * Kopete -- used to work, mysteriously stopped working
> * Konversation -- never worked
> * Mythfront -- no sound yet (haven't followed
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3598#comment:16 yet)
> * V4L tv capture card -- no sound now, used to rely on capturing AUX
> on sound card before
> * PulseAudio -- seems to average 30% CPU usage when playing music,
> doesn't like me using Firefox too much (seems like a resource issue)
> 
> Things I use, albeit infrequently, but just work:
> * flash-plugin

Make sure you have libflashsupport installed.  I makes flash happier
with pulseaudio.

Dan




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