Re: pulseaudio deeply unreliable (Fedora 10)
by Nigel Henry
On Sunday 08 March 2009 18:38, Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> Hello Nigel,
>
> could/would you please stop advertising "remove pulseaudio" as the
> panacea for all audio-related problems? Please? It is not as simple as
> that.
> I've been with Fedora since FC4 in June, 2005. I've had my share of
> "snap, crackle and pop" type audio problems and, if I'm not mistaken,
> you and I have exchanged a couple of posts around the subject.
>
> I have now an F9 system with one MOBO sound card that utilises the
> snd_intel8x0 module, an additional Ensoniq ES 1371 (CT-4810) sound card,
> and C-media USB Headphones. I want and need to be able to use all of
> them.
>
> In my present system, every audio application works flawlessly from
> "hearing what and how you want" point of view - and I'm using PulseAudio
> all the time. "Many moons ago" I was also dissatisfied with the
> emergency of PA (and there *were* bugs when it first appeared on
> Fedora). Now I'm very pleased with it, and I'll tell you why.
>
> I've temporarily installed another sound card, an SB Live!, into my box.
> Pulseaudio lets me direct the audio stream to any of the three, ie. USB
> headphones, the Ensonic card, or the SB card. (It seems like the mobo
> sound card is always disabled when an external sound card is installed.)
> Anyway, the fact that I can arbitrarily choose which sound card will be
> used to output the sound is something I could not achieve with ALSA.
>
> To me, PulseAudio was a definite improvement over ALSA - for my purposes
> anyway. Therefore, I'd like to recommend that you wouldn't be too eager
> to suggest removing PulseAudio to anyone with sound problems. For some
> of us, PulseAudio - if and when it works impeccably - is indeed an
> improvement.
>
> I understand that you are a friendly sort of chap who wants to help
> others. However, helping people to get their PulseAudio work might be a
> better way of solving their audio problems than single-mindedly
> suggesting them they should remove PA.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Antti
I do not advocate the removal of pulseaudio to resolve all audio problems.
When I see audio related probelms, which may,or may not be related to
pulseaudio, I suggest disabling pulseaudio to see if that resolves the audio
problem, and that's as far as it goes. if disabling pulseaudio resolves a
sound related problem, then all well and good.
If the user now has his/her sounds working, that is all that I'm trying to
help with. Personally I have no interest in pulseaudio, as on all my 3
machines the sound works without pulseaudio entering the equation.
I will continue to try and help folks with sound related problems. I do not
believe that pulseaudio is necessary for sounds to work, and sounds worked
with Alsa long before pulseaudio existed (FC1).
No doubt this will start some flame or other, but is the way I answer sound
related problems, whether on Fedora, Debian, or Kubuntu/Ubuntu lists. So so
be it.
Nigel.
15 years, 2 months
Resizing NTFS partition to make room for FC10
by Tod Thomas
I know this is a little off topic. I did google around looking for the
correct forum to post this question but had little luck. If anyone can
make an informed suggestion I'd very much appreciate it.
I have a 150GB ATA disk, /dev/hdb, containing winxp. I'd like to move
the contents to an spare 80GB ATA disk, /dev/hda, to make room for a
full install of FC10 on the larger disk in preparation for ultimately
getting the winxp install running under a linux based VM.
From knoppix, I started by using ntfsresize to shrink the xp partition
down to 20GB. That worked suprisingly fine.
I then installed the smaller drive and used dd to copy over the image of
the xp installation: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=10000000 count=2000
I rebooted and voila! it worked - sort of. The new disk boots xp but it
still, according to fdisk, thinks its 150GB. So I used fdisk to delete
and redefine the xp partition (primary, bootable type=7) with the new
size of the drive, 20GB. After rebooting xp came up but then started
quickly blue screening a message I couldn't read, and rebooting. This
repeated in a loop until I just rebooted. I tried the whole process
over again but this time specified 80GB to dd and fdisk, same disaster.
I tried everything again, but this time instead of fdisk I fired up
gparted to see if I could resize from there hoping that if it could some
magic would also fix the invalid sizing detected by fdisk. gparted
could see the drive but couldn't recognize it as having anything it
could work with. I highlighted the drive and the progress bar stayed gray.
So far it seems I can use the drive this way without causing xp any
problems. The issue is things just don't look right and I suspect it
will come back to bite me one day. I'm not an expert at manipulating
bits on a hard drive just yet. Could someone point me to my error? Is
what I'm trying do-able? If its a conceptual problem a little education
would come in handy too.
Thanks in advance - Tod
15 years, 2 months
gnome-panel applets hangs
by Özgür Caner
Hello,
I'm using FC10 on two different computers and both have the same problem.
After a while working with the computer gnome-panel hangs not the
panel itself but the clock applet stops updating and some of the
notification icons disappear.
I attached a screenshot showing my problem!
To workaround that problem, I do a right click on the clock applet and
then click on preferences/settings. After that clock applet works and
the disappeared icons are visible too.
Is there a better solution for this problem?
thx
Özgür Caner
15 years, 2 months
f10 xorg
by François Patte
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I just installed f10.
Can't find xorg.conf.... Where has this file gone?
Thank you.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2413
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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15 years, 2 months
totem not able to render youtube video
by Peter Teoh
I have been trying to view the youtube videos but have encountered the
following bugs in totem (F10, x86 32bit, 2.6.29-rc3 kernel), and have
almost updated exhausted all the resources I can find on the Internet
(let me know if u want any rpm -qa):
/root/kiv>** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance:
PythonConsolePlugin+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Creating object of type
PythonConsolePlugin+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
** (totem:27303): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name
'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name
** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-flv
** Message: Error: A Flash demuxer plugin is required to play this
stream, but not installed.
gstdecodebin.c(904): close_pad_link ():
/GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0:
No decoder to handle media type 'video/x-flv'
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|Flash
demuxer|decoder-video/x-flv (Flash demuxer)
** Message: PackageKit: xid = 77594627
** Message: PackageKit: Codec nice name: Flash demuxer
** Message: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer0.10(decoder-video/x-flv)
** Message: PackageKit: Did not install codec: The name
org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files
** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found.
** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-flv
** Message: Error: A Flash demuxer plugin is required to play this
stream, but not installed.
gstdecodebin.c(904): close_pad_link ():
/GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin1:
No decoder to handle media type 'video/x-flv'
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|Flash
demuxer|decoder-video/x-flv (ignoring)
** Message: All missing plugins are blacklisted, doing nothing
** (totem:27303): DEBUG: Finalizing Python plugin instance
Thank you very much.
--
Regards,
Peter Teoh
15 years, 2 months
How to send DHCP hostname with NM?
by Neal Becker
How in the world do I get hostname set on a dhcp connection managed by NM?
In nm-applet, edit connections/Auto Ethernet shows
under IPv4 Setting
DHCP Client ID: (my name)
But it doesn't seem to send the hostname.
15 years, 2 months
NM problems
by Neal Becker
I have a number of strange things in NM.
If I view 'edit connections' I see:
Auto Ethernet: 14 minutes ago
System eth1: never
Auto eth1: never
1. I am now connected to 'system eth1', but it says 'never'.
2. If I choose auto ethernet it works fine and the settings are editable in
this dialog.
3. If I choose 'system eth1', it works fine but settings are all grayed out.
Why are settings all grayed out in 'system eth1'? In /etc/sysconfig/network-
scripts/ifcfg-eth1 it says:
USERCTL=yes
and
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
What is it looking for?
15 years, 2 months
F10, cups, amanda problem.
by Gene Heskett
Greetings all;
I ran a backup last night for the first time since I upgraded to F10, using
amanda installed according to the usual procedure of building it as the user
amanda, then becoming root to install it.
The backup went to completion ok except for one thing, it is supposed to print
a backup summary page when its done.
However, no paper was laying on the output tray this morning. So I first
became amanda as that is the only user that can run the amanda things, and
tried an "amreport Daily" which should have printed another copy. But:
[amanda@coyote cups]$ amreport Daily
/usr/bin/lpr: Error - no default destination available.
So as amanda, I chased down all the linkages and find that /usr/bin/lpr -
>/etc/alternatives/print ->/usr/bin /lpr.cups.
Yet lp1 is very clearly defined as the default printer according to cups at
localhost:631/printers.
As amanda, I attempt to print a file that only amanda has perms to read:
[amanda@coyote cups]$ lpr /home/amanda/.amandahosts
lpr: Error - no default destination available.
What can I do to rectify this?
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I disagree with unanimity.
15 years, 2 months
dpms + fglrx
by paul s
hi -
i am having a problem with one of my computers and the monitor... it use
to power off and now it no longer does...
suspend seems to work but the screen is still on, just blank.. i am
using powerdevil and also tried kde display and gnome display settings
as well... i know that the ati hd2600 supports powerplay as this worked
in fedora 8 and is also noted on ati website... powering off the display
works with an nvidia card but not the ati...
i've googled a bunch but can't seem to find an answer... help would be
greatly appreciated...
[snip]
$ aticonfig --lsp
Error: POWERplay is not supported on your hardware.
$ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get activity"
Current Activity is Core Clock: 600MHZ
Memory Clock: 684MHZ
VDDC: 1100
Activity: 0 percent
Performance Level: 0
Bus Speed: 2500
Bus Lanes: 16
Maximum Bus Lanes: 16
$ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get clock"
Engine Clock Range: 600-600 MHZ; Memory Clock Range: 684-684 MHZ;
[/snip]
also the option is set in the monitor section of the xorg.conf to use
dpms...
cheers
paul
15 years, 2 months