On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > Then why does dmix lag? > Then why does dmix lag?
I don't know; I don't care. I don't use dmix, I use PulseAudio, and it takes care of everything in user space and I don't have to worry about anything. > I've tried it 6 days ago. Ubuntu 10.04. It's still a laggy, buggy, pile of > ****. First thing I did was to disable it. It doesn't lag here. It's rock solid stable. In all my computers, each one with completely different sound hardware. And I'm just using the ebuilds from Gentoo; I didn't configure *anything*. I didn't have to. Maybe Ubuntu has something wrong: Lennart complained that they "didn't get it": http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pa-in-ubuntu.html > Yes, you and many people also find it acceptable to run their games with > 10FPS, or to take their systems 1 minute to boot, etc. My games doesn't run at 10FPS, my laptop boot in seconds (and usually it's always suspended), my desktop and media center (specially the latter) boot very quickly also. Please don't speak about something you don't know anything about. > I am not one of those people. I don't like it when the sound lags. You may > claim that it doesn't bother you. But you can't claim that it doesn't > happen. I can claim it: it doesn't happen *to me*. It works beautifully. I'm using Gentoo, with the following versions: media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.21.1 sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.32.9 My sound card is : 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) (I'm on my laptop; don't have the specs of my desktop or media center, but the versions at least should be the same). I simply don't have any sound lags. > That doesn't mean ALSA is better. Again, I trust more the technical judgement from the kernel developers. No offense. > Then why don't they fix it? It's still crap after all this time. It's not in my case. Not at all. But (as I said in my last mail), this is Open Source; if you think it's crap, you can try to fix it. All I'm saying is that PulseAudio is a great sound architecture for Linux. It works great for me, in several hardware configurations; and in particular in my Media Center, which is my principal medium to listen to music. And I trust the judgement of the ones that decided to use ALSA+PulseAudio. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
