[ale] Troubleshooting Audio?

[aaron]

On 2008, Dec, 18, , at 1:30 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:

> pulseaudio is the standard for the rpm world as well.
>
> esound was a really cool idea (use network concepts to pump sound  
> bits anywhere AND multiple inputs for single outputs OR multi-in  
> for multi-out) but it was no longer support by the upstream author(s).
>
> pulseaudio is a sound data transport mechanism.
>


Very Punny.
A "sound" data transport mechanism, but is it stable and reliable?
;-)

peace
aaron




> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Paul Cartwright  
> <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Thu December 18 2008, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> > OK, I can do that.  In the mean time.  What is the situation with  
> audio in
> > Linux?  Is PulseAudio the wave of the future... the standard?   
> What's ALSA
> > and some of the other options I see in my Sound Settings?  Either  
> way,
> > sounds seems to be very single-threaded and I' confused by that!   
> Thanks.
>
> I think pulseaudio replaced Alsa for Ubuntu.. I'm runnung Debian  
> Lenny and
> still running alsa, so I have no clue how to configue pulseaudio..  
> my laptop
> may have it, but I never listen to music on my laptop.. it's FOR  
> WORK :)
>
> see:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio
> It's a drop in replacement for EsounD. PulseAudio is the standard  
> sound server
> in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.
>
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