On 11/09/2008, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Bill Crawford
<billcrawford1970(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/09/2008, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> * Sounblaster Live 5.1 PCI -- has full 6 channel audio before, I had
>> for a short while after enabling it as per the pulseaudio wiki, but no
>> more
>
> If it's one of the SBs with multiple hardware channels, unless you are
> likely to want >32 separate apps pumping out sound at once, disable PA
> and just access the card through ALSA directly. It's worked ok for me
> :o)
I'm pretty sure disabling PulseAudio will work since it worked before
PulseAudio. But disabling it defeats the purpose.
If you have multi-channel hardware that mixes itself, then using
PulseAudio sort of defeats the purpose of that hardware ;o)
I'll accept the argument about allowing mixing with different volume
levels from different sources, but in theory that can be done via ALSA
if the hardware allows it.