[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-10 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
You both make perfectly valid points, but I think you don't put the stress exactly where you should, so... sorry for the spam: 1) The ideal situation would be that all applications have native PulseaAudio output, to take advantage of it's great features. Corollary 1a. Bugs in any application's

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-09 Thread Evgeny Kuznetsov
Roberto, you make a perfect point and anybody having any common sense is bound to agree with you. Answering your question, on my machine it's flashplugin-nonfree that causes troubles, not freeing up sound until I close the browser alltogether. And I think ALSA emulation would better be more comple

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-09 Thread Roberto Cássio Jr .
I believe that applications should be fixed, as Josh pointed, considering that the goal is to have PulseAudio really as the "standard" way to go. If PulseAudio is being consolidated, soon or later, they'll have to be changed. So those fixes would be for accomplishing the goal, and not because "the

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-09 Thread Evgeny Kuznetsov
Josh, thank you for the perfect illustration of the upstream PulseAudio team position. I repeat: there's NOTHING WRONG with Skype, aplay, oolite and any other application that relies on ALSA. They work with ALSA, they work in any other distribution, they worked well in Gutsy, so having to "fix" th

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-09 Thread Josh Smith
install and run pavucontrol. apps that use pulseaudio will appear in pavucontrol when making sound, and those that do should all work together. any apps that dont appear in pavucontrol will not work with any apps that do. i think the best idea is to look for and report individual applications th

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-05 Thread Alessio Gaeta
Daniel Chen made an interesting comment on HAL here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/109439/comments/4 . I agree with him but this bug remember us all that ALSA EXISTS, along with dmix... To get rid on "dancing indexes" one could base settings on symbolic card names... As

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-04 Thread Pacho Ramos
Maybe a "tracker" bug should be opened for collect all issues related with pulseaudio. Most of them can be fixed or workarounded, but a tracker bug is really useful for checking opened bugs easily. At least with bugzilla (I don't know how launchpad manages this) the tracker bugs has all related mar

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-04 Thread Eduardo Durany Fernández
If you don't enable alsa redirection for pulseaudio (the .asoundrc thing or asoundconf set-pulseaudio), you can try this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/109439 -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bu

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-02 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: pulseaudio Status: Unknown => New -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-01 Thread Ulrich Hobelmann
I tried the .asoundrc thing, but neither with pulse running, nor with 'killall pulseaudio' will Skype work, neither with 'pulse' nor the default device. It's always 'problems with audio playback'. Anyway, Ubuntu isn't the only distro to switch to default-PA, so here's hoping Skype will do the onl

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-01 Thread Roberto Cássio Jr .
I think putting the command: $ asoundconf set-pulseaudio Will also enable alsa redirection for pulse audio, at least per user, and may be a solution for the problem. I'm using Hardy x86_64, and, sadly, libasound2-plugins is not avaliable for 32 bits apps like Skype ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-01 Thread Evgeny Kuznetsov
Ulrich, Skype is not the only issue with PulseAudio (though one of the most annoying ones). Including PulseAudio in the coming LTS release doesn't look too wise to me either, but it's included and we'll have to live with it anyway. A temporarily workaround was proposed earlier in this bugreport: i

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
Have you tried this: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Errata#Skype_with_PulseAudio ? -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-01 Thread Ulrich Hobelmann
Confirmed. Skype does not work at all on Ubuntu 8.04, and no matter how i configure its sound device, it doesn't work. 'padsp' doesn't change anything, either. While this might be Skype's fault, it seems that Pulseaudio has existed for at least a year now, and at least for a year there have been

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-04-01 Thread Sense Hofstede
** Also affects: pulseaudio via http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/198 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-30 Thread Amroth
Hello, I can also semi confirm this bug. Heres what happens with me (As of March 30th): 1) Start up skype (skype in terminal) 2) No login sound 3) Try calling someone, skype freezes and either requires killing the process But I can confirm that for me the pasuspender skype workaround does work.

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-27 Thread Susan Cragin
I am also getting very weak incoming sound with my non-gnome recording devices. I assume incoming (recorded) sound is part of the bug? -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-27 Thread Evgeny Kuznetsov
Thanks for pointing this simple test out, Roberto — they don't sound simultaneously. Skype (and aplay, vlc, all stuff like that) are useless unless I close the page with a YouTube video in Firefox (simply pausing or stopping the video doesn't make no good). But anyway, after closing that page ALSA

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-27 Thread Roberto Cássio Jr .
Still a problem in my system too. Evgeny, did you try to test playing a video on youtube and using skype (or another alsa-only program) at the same time? Does both output sounds work? -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You rece

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-27 Thread Susan Cragin
Still a problem on my system. I re-install the whole system 3 days ago and have performed all available updates. I have not tried any workarounds, so my system is "as-installed." -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-26 Thread Evgeny Kuznetsov
On my system, the problem seems to have vanished. I have occasionally rebooted the system, and decided not to kill pulseaudio after boot to test things a bit. To my astonishment, sound works flawlessly, even in skype, games, etc. Flashplugin in Firefox sometimes locks sound to itself (producing th

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-25 Thread Roberto Cássio Jr .
Just for my curiosity, any hopes to have this fixed for Hardy final? Maybe I'm wrong, but PulseAudio as the default sound server doesn't look like a big improvement, with this bug (and similar others)... -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-20 Thread Nat Tuck
Me too. -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubun

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-19 Thread Susan Cragin
Sorry. In the comment above I put the ekiga bug report twice and missed the gnome. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413552 -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-19 Thread Susan Cragin
More relevant alsa bug reports: for ekiga and gnome: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3825 https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3825 -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this b

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-19 Thread Susan Cragin
The new default pulseaudio in Hardy does not work with many non-Gnome programs, not just Skype. I am worried that everyone (Ubuntu, Alsa, Pulse, Wine) is not on the same page. Will try cross-posting bug information. I am concerned for myself because I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking in Wine as an

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-18 Thread Anders
Have tested workaround UNsuccessfully: pasuspender skype Machine hangs completely, have to do hard reboot (never good news!) -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-18 Thread Anders
Could someone with triage-rights please set this to medium or high? The current system behaviour could be a bit of a showstopper for new and experienced users alike and should be adressed for a LTS release! Cheers -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.la

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-16 Thread hyperair
This is a working workaround for me until the bug is fixed: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4526841#post4526841 -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu B

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-16 Thread hyperair
Please look at Bug 109439. Seems like the same bug to me. -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-16 Thread Evgeny Kuznetsov
Thanks for the useful link, Anders. To my mind, we're not only facing a bug — it's a regression actually, and as such should be treated as very important. It's nice to be on the cutting edge of progress and use latest inventions like PulseAudio in our favoured distro (though my experience of PulseA

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-16 Thread Anders
This is definitely a bug. Skype completely crashes, a good source of info here: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=112021 -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-16 Thread Anders
Updated status to "Confirmed" ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-06 Thread Evgeny Kuznetsov
Another workaround is to simply killall pulseaudio. -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubu

[Bug 198453] Re: PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly

2008-03-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
Partially confirmed: I have had the same problem with Skype and aplay, I have not yet tried the /etc/asound.conf workaround. A workaround (NOT a fix) is apparently to run applications like this: pasuspender skype -- PulseAudio prevents programs relying on ALSA to work correctly https://bugs.lau