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Pulseaudio is a brand new sound server system for linux. | Pulseaudio is a brand new sound server system for linux. | ||
http://www.pulseaudio.org | [http://www.pulseaudio.org project website] | ||
[http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio On the Gentoo Wiki] | |||
== | == from command line == | ||
* list devices/clients: | * list devices/clients: | ||
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* list [[ESOUND]] handlers | * list [[ESOUND]] handlers | ||
# eselect esd list | |||
Available ESounD implementations: | Available ESounD implementations: | ||
[1] ESounD original * | [1] ESounD original * | ||
[2] PulseAudio | [2] PulseAudio | ||
# eselect esd set 2 | |||
== alsa emulation == | |||
* file:/etc/asound.conf | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang=php> | |||
pcm.pulse { | |||
type pulse | |||
} | |||
ctl.pulse { | |||
type pulse | |||
} | |||
pcm.!default { | |||
type pulse | |||
} | |||
ctl.!default { | |||
type pulse | |||
} | |||
#pcm.jackplug { | |||
# type plug | |||
# slave { pcm "jack" } | |||
#} | |||
#pcm.soundcard-hw { | |||
#type hw | |||
#card 0 | |||
#} | |||
# | |||
# | |||
#pcm.!default { | |||
#type pulse | |||
#slave.pcm "soundcard" | |||
#} | |||
# | |||
#pcm.soundcard { | |||
#type pulse | |||
#} | |||
# | |||
# | |||
#ctl.soundcard-hw { | |||
#type hw | |||
#card 0 | |||
#} | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
= network = | |||
==server== | |||
/etc/pulse/default.pa | |||
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1;192.168.0.0/16 | |||
load-module module-x11-publish | |||
load-module module-gconf | |||
/etc/pulse/default.pa | |||
load-module module-alsa-sink | |||
==client== | |||
/etc/pulse/client.conf | |||
default-server = tcp:SERVER:4713 | |||
== extensively == | |||
* list me the packages actually using pulseaudio use flag: | |||
equery hasuse pulseaudio | |||
* from how I've understood it, ''(I've been studying about several sound systems like oss,esd,alsa,sox specialized all in different branches of "the sound" and all are following the evolution of GNU projects)''... | |||
... '''Pulseaudio uses ALSA''' , down there, still taking care of the hardware layer. I got this quickly, as it looks pretty functional and I was speculating about alsa doing "to much stuff" without an application abstraction level "helper". | |||
this means that is not a replacement, is not the new complete system, but indeed it's amplifying the before tiny user funcions given from alsa (that is doing the hard job with the hardware). Another big step for the all open source community. | |||
...and this means, again, you must specify the alsa use flag to compile it with that support. | |||
emerge -pv pulseaudio | |||
media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.22-r2 USE="X alsa asyncns avahi bluetooth caps dbus glib ipv6 jack libsamplerate tcpd udev -doc -gnome -lirc (-oss) -realtime (-system-wide) -test" 0 kB | |||
Latest revision as of 23:56, 1 April 2012
Pulseaudio is a brand new sound server system for linux.
from command line
* list devices/clients: pactl list
- list ESOUND handlers
# eselect esd list Available ESounD implementations: [1] ESounD original * [2] PulseAudio # eselect esd set 2
alsa emulation
- file:/etc/asound.conf
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
#pcm.jackplug {
# type plug
# slave { pcm "jack" }
#}
#pcm.soundcard-hw {
#type hw
#card 0
#}
#
#
#pcm.!default {
#type pulse
#slave.pcm "soundcard"
#}
#
#pcm.soundcard {
#type pulse
#}
#
#
#ctl.soundcard-hw {
#type hw
#card 0
#}
network
server
/etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1;192.168.0.0/16 load-module module-x11-publish load-module module-gconf
/etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-alsa-sink
client
/etc/pulse/client.conf
default-server = tcp:SERVER:4713
extensively
- list me the packages actually using pulseaudio use flag:
equery hasuse pulseaudio
- from how I've understood it, (I've been studying about several sound systems like oss,esd,alsa,sox specialized all in different branches of "the sound" and all are following the evolution of GNU projects)...
... Pulseaudio uses ALSA , down there, still taking care of the hardware layer. I got this quickly, as it looks pretty functional and I was speculating about alsa doing "to much stuff" without an application abstraction level "helper". this means that is not a replacement, is not the new complete system, but indeed it's amplifying the before tiny user funcions given from alsa (that is doing the hard job with the hardware). Another big step for the all open source community. ...and this means, again, you must specify the alsa use flag to compile it with that support.
emerge -pv pulseaudio media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.22-r2 USE="X alsa asyncns avahi bluetooth caps dbus glib ipv6 jack libsamplerate tcpd udev -doc -gnome -lirc (-oss) -realtime (-system-wide) -test" 0 kB
