Switched to Pulseaudio
Following to an issue with esound not playing GNOME system sounds, I have decided to give Pulseaudio a try.
Installing the pulseaudio package pulled all necessary dependencies, including the esound compatibility plugin. I have added local users to the pulse-rt group, as recommended. After this, all worked perfectly except the main channel was muted and its volume set to 0% after rebooting.
I have found that not loading the module-device-restore does fix this issue, strangely. If you encounter the same problem, try and comment out the line load-module module-device-restore in /etc/pulse/default.pa.
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Thanks!
It is really annoying after booting.
Sure… for a laptop it is kind of handy that the sounds are off.
Especially you are in a lecture.
But all the day at home it is not very comfortable.
Hi, I’ve some problems with pulseaudio. It seems that the mixing does not work.
If I’m on a youtube page watching a video, banshee cannot play any sound… I need to kill firefox and rerun it.
Any idea?
Actually, I have the same problem… It is clear that Flash Player is to blame, but as far as I can find for now, Flash 10 should have fixed these issues.
I will enquire and let you know whether I can find something.
Cheers,
Julien
Please vote for the bug so that we get a chance to get it fixed in Flash Player : http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1154
I don’t know if you solved the issue, but libasound2-plugins solved for me.
ciao!
Hi,
No, I haven’t yet fixed this issue (I already have libasound2-plugins installed). Are there any other steps to follow?
Cheers,
Julien
Actually I dont know… I noticed that running iceweasel from command line it complained about a file and it was in that (missing for me) package.
ah, I’m using flashplayer 10, directly from adobe.
(I saw there was a libflashsupport… It seems I dont need it… but you can try…)
ah, my gnome is configured to use pulseaudio everywhere.
Thanks, I have finally made it work.
For those having the same issue: install libasound2-plugins, add the following to /etc/asound.conf (create this file if it doesn’t exist):
pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse }And set GNOME sound preferences to use pulseaudio server.