Pulseaudio on Maverick 10.10

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 10:40 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:04:56 am O. Sinclair wrote:
> > On 12/10/2010 11:36, Valter Mura wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > with the new release in subject (Maverick 10.10), the system changed the
> > > handling of the audio, at least for me, from alsa to pulseaudio.
> > > 
> > > Now my microphone doesn't work (I tried it with Skype, that I use) and in
> > > the setting interface of the mixer there are no options to set channels
> > > and devices.
> > > 
> > > Is there anybody who knows how to get solved this problem, keeping the
> > > pulseaudio server? Or is it  necessary to open a bug?
> > 
> > In a way I see it as a bug, I had the same experience as you. However,
> > digging the list archives I found that if you install pavucontrol from
> > Kpackagekit (or whatever you prefer) that gives you the setting options
> > you need.
> 
> Pavucontrol got my sound working on my desktop machine!  Thank you very much 
> for this.  It was a hit and miss thing before as sometime there was sound and 
> mics other times nothing and so when needed the user had to sign out and back 
> in until it came on.  Thanks again, pulseaudio has been a real pain for a long 
> time.

I rest my case! <smirks> Ric

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