I hear Pulse Audio is the culprit of all the sound issues. I would like to remove it, and default to straight ALSA or whatever distros like Fedora and Ubuntu use, which has never been problematic for me.
In my opinion I do not advice you to do it.
Not sure about ubuntu but the latest Fedora uses pulseaudio by default.
From what I read in reviews, Ubuntu uses pulseaudio as its default sound server.
Hilarious. So once again its a glitch that is openSUSE specific. Like the KDE and plasma crashes with NVidia driver in 11.3. With bugs like this, I seriously have to wonder who is asleep on the job.
Ok, so if I can’t remove it how can I fix the skipping and all that? How can we start troubleshooting it?
If you use the forum’s search facility, you will find out how a few users (KDE) removed P/A to use ALSA exclusively. I don’t believe you can simply remove P/A on Gnome, but then Gnome from 11.3 onwards has it as default sound server.
Start troubleshooting? Use the forum’s search facility and you will find some successes and failures. If you are a KDE user, sometimes installing “pavucontrol” can help. If Gnome, I think it’s installed by default.
You can disable Pulse. In YaST’s “Sound” there is button in the bottom-right corner labeled “Other” and when you click it an menu opens. Select “Pulse Audio configuration …” and uncheck “Enable Pulse Audio Support”.
I am not quite sure what else may need to be done though.
I had Pulse disabled until yesterday. However, Pulse is working fine now. In fact some things are better with Pulse, while others are not.
Glad to get that feedback, thanks. I’m still using P/A.
This didn’t seem to change a single thing. None of the behavior changed.
If you still have the skipping then I would figure that you are still using Pulse. Try a reboot, if possible.
I had disabled and rebooted. I’ll try it one more time for good measure.
So, is PulseRunning when you are in KDE? Hit Crtl+Esc, and filter for “pulse”.
I disabled it in YAST, and rebooted. It worked this time Pulse isn’t in the process thingy, and sound is working better now… though Amarok is crashy.
I have removed (deinstalled) Pulse immediately after installation (leaving ALSA in place) and sound problems disappeared, and Skype works just fine.
For me, Pulse is still a badly done piece of software which is unstable, faulty and main cause of sound problems. Maybe one day they will get it right (if ever)
How do you know it’s P/A that’s at fault? Perhaps the problems lie with KDE and the way it implements its audio interfaces. P/A has been working on Gnome since 11.3 made it the default. If you don’t use it, you won’t notice any improvement.
SO I can just uninstall its packages and that should fix it? I disabled it in YaST and things are mostly better. Media players have scratchy soud, but there is no skipping of system sounds.
There is only one test I do: skype
As soon as I have problems, which is default (problems), I remove it.
Anyways, sound is always quiater even on max… just not worth trouble. Removing is easiest and ALSA 100% works.
I guess that explains it. However, IMO a narrow focus like that on a package that isn’t included in the standard distribution, doesn’t justify rubbishing P/A every time someone chooses to disable it.
Anyways, sound is always quiater even on max… just not worth trouble. Removing is easiest and ALSA 100% works.
That’s odd, and completely the opposite to my openSUSE systems.
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:36:01 +0530, consused
<consused@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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> beli0135;2322864 Wrote:
>> There is only one test I do: skype
> I guess that explains it. However, IMO a narrow focus like that on a
> package that isn’t included in the standard distribution, doesn’t
> justify rubbishing P/A every time someone chooses to disable it.
+1
>> Anyways, sound is always quiater even on max… just not worth trouble.
>> Removing is easiest and ALSA 100% works.
> That’s odd, and completely the opposite to my openSUSE systems.
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depends on your audio card. some are able to play different streams
simultaneously, others are not. if not, you need an audio server like
pulse. if yes, you can do with pure alsa.
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phani.