If at all possible avoid it! I installed it awhile back for similar reasons ... I needed a BT headset that some programs could only use via pulse.
Since then (and currently) audio only seems to work sporadicly with strange, and hard to trace problems - its reputation as a pita to work with is well earned in my experience. :( BillK On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 23:11 -0300, João Matos wrote: > Hi list. > > The KDE phonon can't work properly when I plug a USB audio card (like > a webcam with microphone) neither recognize my bluetooth headset. > > When I used to try to use my webcam microphone, phonon got lost every > time I've reboot the system. It always asked me to forget the devices, > as if there were new sound cards every time the system rebooted. It > also wasn't able to decide which should be the default sound card. > Sometimes it guessed correctly, most the time not. Other problems: > when kde had the control of a device, none application outside kde > were able to use it, as skype or mplayer. > > The solution I found then was to disable the support from my webcam's > audio card on kernel. Without the USB card support, my system get back > to normal behavior and I was able to use the webcam. Of course, it was > kinda extreme. > > So, I was wondering if use pulseaudio should fix it, but I'm not sure > if it can help. What do you think? > > Any help will be appreciated. > > thanks in advance, > > -- > João de Matos > Linux User #461527 >
