[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio and Pulseaudio

[brian at linuxsynths.com]

Hi all, 

although pulseaudio wasn't causing the problem I was
having with this particular instrument, when I run "top" or "htop" in
the terminal, pulseaudio is always near the top of the list of threads,
even though I have never used it. So I did uninstall it (remove rather
than purge) and things still work fine as far as I have seen so far.


Although I don't use pulseaudio and I don't know it very well, I have
read from many people who use linux for audio production that alsa and
jack are the preferred systems. 

It would be nice if Jack would connect
to Firefox automatically; as things are right now it doesn't (afaik)
without a specific "flash-to-jack" file that I have used on another pc
but not the current installation. (I don't think it's in the
ubuntustudio repos either..) Or maybe there are other, better ways to
connect Jack to a web browser, I don't know. Perhaps it's the web
browsers' responsability to allow connection to Jack..? 

brian 

On
Sat, 12 Dec 2015 07:40:04 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: 

> On Sat, 12
Dec 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 06:25:11 -0800
(PST), Len Ovens wrote: 
>> 
>>> any desktop application that requires
pulse will not hang or fail
>> Hi Len, what app does hang or fail, if
the pulseaudio package is removed or replaced by a dummy package? I'm
not aware of any app and I don't see a reason to have pulseaudio
installed, if a user doesn't want to use it. IIUC the OP doesn't use
pulseaudio at all. On my Linux installs I never experienced an issue
with pulseaudio removed or replaced by a dummy package. I never used
pulseaudio.
> 
> The OP was guessing that pulse caused problems, not
sure. So the best 
> thing to do is check first before doing surgery. A
few commandline checks 
> will confirm if PA is really the problem or
something else.
> 
> Desktop applications that use audio will hang or
just stop and wait for 
> audio if the device is blocked by jack unless
an alternate route is set 
> up. If the user understands this, it is not
a problem, most don't. Not 
> that many years ago, linux was a one audio
use at a time and users 
> understood that, but most expect audio to
interleave like other OS do 
> any more.
> 
> I am well aware that you
do not use pulse and will look for any oportunity 
> to suggest others
remove it too. You are welcome to support all those who 
> choose to
remove pulse. :) However, most of us barely have time to 
> support
things as they are without also supporting Fankenstien setups.
> 
> --
>
Len Ovens
> www.ovenwerks.net [1]

  

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