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[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 12:48 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 13/08/2010 12:28, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 22:06 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> Pulse audio: Just about every version of pulse audio in every
> >> distribution has sucked.
> >>      
> > Funny thing, I've raised all kinds of cain about Pulse since it reared
> > it's ugly head. I've ranted and cursed it and spewed vitriol all over
> > the place. Now, with Lucid, it works well! I can switch audio on the fly
> > and I kinda>like it<  It sets up my 5.1 sound just peachy with no fuss.
> > I'm impressed! My two cents, Ric
> >    
> 
> 
> Sorry to disagree.
> 
> I have to uninstall pulse every time before I can use alsamixergui to 
> get my sound working.
> 
> Have pulse installed and it will not allow alsamixergui to show all the 
> settings it has - only the first 5 are shown. Want to see the rest- get 
> rid of pulseaudio.
> 
> (Once the sound is going with alsamixer then you can bring back pulse; 
> but you will need to get rid of it again if you want to adjust some 
> setting in alsamixer.)

Back in Karmic some bits were removed from alsa-utils in deference to
pulse. I completely forget which bit was removed. Things like
asoundconf-gtk got trashed (unable to run) missing that "bit". So, I
couldn't select my sound source with that little applet. Jerked me off
no end. I loved it since Hardy. So, with Lucid, I figured I'd try to buy
into Pulse just one time, to be fair. Damn things works. So, you're
actually better off not using another mixer as that dinks up the works
with regards to pulse and it's own mixer. 

So, I've managed to shock myself, I actually am on the side of Pulse
now. Heck, I remember raging around when alsa first came out. I was
maybe right at the time, but now alsa is mainstream. Pulse, when
working, is pretty darn slick. Ric