State of sound in Linux not so sorry after all
john wendel
jwendel10 at comcast.net
Wed Jul 1 15:25:37 UTC 2009
On 07/01/2009 12:30 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:05 PM, john wendel<jwendel10 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 06/30/2009 09:23 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> I do not mind the "experimental" nature of Fedora. In fact, it is one
>>> of the features that draws me to the distribution. Unfortunately, in
>>> the F11 release the Fedora project team screwed up royally by not
>>> providing or leaving available fallback option(s) for Pulse Audio. If
>>> Pulse Audio does not work with your hardware there aren't any packaged
>>> tools for you to use to troubleshoot the problem. If you uninstall or
>>> do not install Pulse Audio what packaged alternatives are available?
>>>
>> Alsa works fine here without PulseAudio. You just need to configure your
>> apps to use the direct Alsa interface instead of the Pulse interface.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John
>
> Do you have a modprobe.conf? What do you use in place of the
> pulseaudio volume applet? I have not found an equivalent one for Gnome
> panel.
>
No modprobe.conf. I set the default sound levels with alsamixer, and I
use the volume controls in the app I'm using. I don't use any desktop
sounds, if that matters to you.
Regards,
John
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