Bill Davidsen wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 19:31 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> If it doesn't work out of the box there are no tools to ever make it >>> work, which is why PA should be in the toybox, not the default. >> ---- >> ignoring the reality that PA works for most people out of the box, I >> would agree with you but I can't ignore the reality. It works for me. It >> has worked for me on every computer I have installed Fedora on. It works >> for me on every computer I have installed Ubuntu on. >> > So tools to correct the cases which don't work out of the box and can't > be made to work are not needed because it works most of the time? What > do we need this Linux for anyway, after all Windows works most of the > time... > There are tools, but they are not really dedicated Pulse Audio tools. You have to go to the Pulse Audio web side that read the documentation there. (I don't have the link handy, but I posted it in this thread already.) The one time I had problems, it was an Alsa configuration problem after an upgrade... (/etc/asound.conf problem.) There are things like the Pulse Audio volume meters that can tell you if the signal is getting to pa. The pa volume control can tell you a lot more about what is going on. For a lot more information, but harder to understand, there is the device chooser and audio manager. When you drop down to the Alsa layer, there are tools like aplay and amixer. There is also alsa-info. System-config-sound mostly works with this layer. Then there are the assorted volume controls. I use the standard Gnome volume control, and it offers different sets of mixer controls, depending on what level/card you are trying to control. Yes, it can get complicated, especially if you have several sound cards, and you want to direct different sources to different cards. But I think the flexibility is worth it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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