PA works well with stereo-only outputs. That's most users. People such as myself, however, with 5.1 out, are perpetually disappointed and/or frustrated by the lack of the systems ability to work reliably. I constantly have problems playing music, because it reverts to stereo output every time it is opened. It happens in all distributions that have PA, so it isn't a bug in packaging or configuration, unless all distress and upstream itself get it all wrong. On Aug 19, 2012 11:24 PM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:11 PM, João Matos <jaon...@gmail.com> 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. > > I've been using GNOME + PulseAudio since the later become stable in > Gentoo. Could not be more happy: my usecase is very similar to yours: > I have a BT headset, and a pair of USB speakers, which include a sound > card. With PulseAudio, the USB speakers works automagically; I don't > need to do anything, and I can change with a click where the audio > goes out, either the included speakers, or the USB ones. With the BT > headset I just need to pair it in the GNOME Bluetooth settings, and > it's the same, I can change where the audio streams go with one click, > and also set it per application. > > I also use PA in my Media Center, and the audio quality is... pretty > much the same that without PA, but you get a lot of benefits. > > Just take in mind that I use GNOME; I do not know how different (if at > all) it will be with KDE. > > Regards. > -- > Canek Peláez Valdés > Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México > >
