[xubuntu-users] Sound Setting - No Sound

[Ric Moore]

On 01/31/2013 08:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 13:46 +0000, John Deakin wrote:
>> Ralf,
>>
>> Your English is fine, better than my German(?).
>>
>> Anyway problem solved. I started off on analogue output but nothing
>> worked. Tried all the other options and ended up with digital because it
>> seemed to give me more options to experiment with. Anyway as a result of
>> your help I have switched back to analogue and everything is now working
>> fine??
>>
>> What other audio managers are there as I feel distinctly uncertain about
>> PulseAudio after this episode.
>>
>> regards,
>> John
>
> I'm using jackd with ALSA or ALSA without a sound server. I never
> experienced issues with obsolete sound servers such as arts.
>
> However, I always needed jackd for audio production and for consuming
> multimedia I always was comfortable with ALSA only.

For your needs pulse and jack are at odds with each other since they 
both want control of in and outputs. But, I wouldn't tell the average 
user to use jack nor tell them not to use pulse. Switching between a 5.1 
output and a USB headset used to be a file editing chore with straight 
alsa. Pulse does that kind of thing on the fly. Again, good, if not 
great,  for the average user. YMMV, Ric


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