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What are you using for sound? I use Pulseaudio on my desktop (custom built with a M-Audio Delta 2496 Pro soundcard) and on my laptop (crappy Lenovo G575) and I
by antihero 14y ago
What are you using for sound? I use Pulseaudio on my desktop (custom built with a M-Audio Delta 2496 Pro soundcard) and on my laptop (crappy Lenovo G575) and I don't have any problems at all.
All I do is have this line in my .xinitrc:
[[ -x /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 ]] && start-pulseaudio-x11 &
And it works perfectly! If I want to change my volume or manage which device it outputs on, I just run pavucontrol
- ajross 14y agoWhat distro are you using that you are having to start pulseaudio manually? I swear I thought it was default everywhere.
- jlgreco 14y agoHe might be using Arch or Gentoo, or another of the more "DIY" oriented distros. Last time I used Gentoo you still had to really go out of your way to install pulseaudio, though that was four years ago so I don't know if that has changed.
- antihero 14y agoIt's Arch, and it's really rather easy to install PA # pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa And if you're ok with having GConf installed (ugh) # pacman -S pavucontrol paprefs
- fmoralesc 14y agoIt is the default in all mayor DEs, but he might have a custom X session, using a standalone window manager and extra tools. Or he could work in the console.
- antihero 14y agoI'm using Arch, but this applies to any distro if you don't use a DM and instead use xinit. I much much prefer the simplicity of only using what I at least partially understand - the more magic (ie a DM) the more shit to go wrong that you don't understand.