No audio output using Precise due to pulseaudio?

Sun Apr 29 14:14:15 UTC 2012

On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 10:05 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote:
> if sound is not working in general in pulse, then id say you have a
> general support issue.. you can go to the main #ubuntu support
> channel, or the ubuntu mailing lists... could be flash related.. i
> would try with a different browser...

I also tested Thunar and a mp3 file. It's very simple, PA only "sees"
the 2 Envy24 cards, but I don't use those cards for audio, for me they
are MIDI interfaces only. For audio I'll use the RME card.

FWIW hdspmixer is ok:

spinymouse at precise:~$ hdspmixer

HDSPMixer 1.11 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel
<thomas at undata.org>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPMixer is free software, see the file COPYING for details

Looking for RME cards:
Card 0: RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfdbf0000, irq 18
RME AIO found!
Card 1: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20
Card 2: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21
Card 3: KORG INC. nanoKONTROL at usb-0000:00:13.0-2, full speed
1 RME cards card found.
Restoring last presets used

> 
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>         On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 09:40 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote:
>         > if "pulseaudio crap" is your opinion, then remove pulse
>         audio... would
>         > you like a link to a guide for that?
>         
>         
>         Right now I'm going to backup US Precise. After making the
>         backup I'll
>         disable or remove PA and I'll build a full preempt non-rt
>         kernel with
>         threadirqs as boot option. Such a kernel should enable that
>         rtirq does
>         what I expect to do it. I still wonder what to do, to get
>         access to the
>         4GB RAM, instead of just 3.8GB, since arch is 64-bit.
>         If you've got a link at hand, than yes, please send me the
>         link.
>         
>         > i dont plan on using the pulse to jack bridge myself...
>         would that
>         > work in your workflow Ralph? do you need pulse and JACK
>         > simultaneously?
>         
>         
>         I absolutely don't need PA.
>         
>         >  would you like suggestions on how to use JACK without pulse
>         in 12.04?
>         
>         
>         Yes :)!
>         
>         > does sound work in the browser with JACK not running?
>         
>         
>         No, there's no audio output.
>         
>         Regards,
>         Ralf
>         
>         PS: Desktop usage (mails, browser etc. is fast and without
>         issues). I
>         only had o change one color for Xfce terminal. I changed
>         palette entry
>         13 from #5555FF to #AFAFE3, because when I run
>         spinymouse at precise:~$ ls -l .local/share/evolution
>         lrwxrwxrwx 1 spinymouse spinymouse   58 Apr 28 15:13 mail
>         -> /mnt/archlinux/home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution/mail
>         the link color was unreadable on the black background.
>         
>         
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