KDE sound delays (solved hopefully)

[Rex Dieter]

On 12/24/2012 09:04 AM, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been suffering for a lag in the sound events for a few releases now
> which seemed to be getting progressively worse, up two/three seconds at times.
>
> I thought I would give kde 4.9.90 a test so installed F18 RC and in the
> meantime updated to 4.9.95. Alas the problem was still there.
>
> Over the past months I had been working to try and find a solution to this and
> scouring kde.bugs but never came up with an answer until now.
>
> Today I read that Pulseaudio 3.0 had been released so I rebuilt the F19 RPM
> and success! the terrible delays have gone :-) still testing but it looks
> promising.
>
> Maybe this will help others who have such bad delays in the sound events.

See "pulseaudio-backport" repo on
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/

I've already put up pa-3.0 builds for f18.  may end up doing f17 too 
sometime, we'll see.

-- rex