Sound faults in Version 2.3.0 w/ Debian Squeeze

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Valorie Zimmerman at 28/03/10 11:06 did gyre and gimble:
>> I know you've gotten some advice to stop or remove PulseAudio, but
>> I've got the opposite advice. Put PA at the top of the list of your
>> output devices -- ALL output devices. It can work well, but it does
>> not play well with others. I had various annoying sound problems until
>> I did this, and now everything works perfectly.
>
> This certainly used to be the case, but quite some time ago I did work
> to properly integrate Phonon and PulseAudio.
>
> As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, you should ask your distribution
> to include the latest phonon from gitorious and build it against
> pulseaudio headers/libs for full integration. You should also make sure
> you have pulseaudio 0.9.21+extra patches from the stable-queue branch
> (most distros I know ship this). With this and the start-pulseaudio-kde
> script and you should have a very nicely integrated Phonon+PA and avoid
> the configuration problems that trip up a lot of people at the first
> hurdle for which their "solution" is to remove PA.
>
> Lots more info on my blog linked below.

I only advise people to remove it as a last resort. And just as often,
I tell people to install it if they lack it. However, the advice to
move it to the top of the list nearly always solves the problem. :-)

Kubuntu offers 1:0.9.19. I'll try to ping a packager with your advice.

Valorie


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