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On Fri, 16 May 2008 23:23:12 +0100

"Chris Cannam"  wrote:
> On 16/05/2008, Lee Revell  wrote:

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> > Well, it works perfectly for me, on two separate Ubuntu 8.04

> > machines, without hardware mixing, one using pulseaudio and one

> > using alsa + dmix.

>

> By the way, to come back to this -- is there any way in the Ubuntu

> config GUIs to find out which server/setup you're using?  I have

> everything set to Autoconfig, and according to "ps" I do have

> pulseaudio running, but I don't see anything in the GUI to say so.

> And although the GUI does mention ESD, I don't actually seem to have

> ESD running regardless of whether it's enabled in the GUI or not.

>

> Similarly, if I had more than one soundcard, where would I go to tell

> pulseaudio which one to use?

>

> I'm quite fond of the new Ubuntu, but as far as sound is concerned,

> for me it really doesn't seem to be any improvement over earlier

> distros.

>

>

> Chris

>From my experience, the ESD-option in the gui enables/disables PA.

There shouldn't be any other soundserver running, afaik.
PAs gui is quite strange, you need to start the PA-device chooser, then

(!)leftclick on the thing in the taskbar. Choose the volume control,

it's the only part of the control stuff I needed so far and contains

the controls one usually wants.

Go to	the output devices-tab, rightclick on the device you want

to have as default device and you'll see a context menu with a single

checkbox reading 'Default'.

On the playback-tab you can change the output device of a 'playing' app

in the same manner.

Hope this helps.
I agree that it isn't really a big improvement, in parts because of the

strange gui, its bad integration into the desktop and the

incompatibility between PA and portaudio and similar problems.
Best Regards,

	murks

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