I want my reliable laptop based Amarok jukebox back

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag, 11. August 2013, 14:49:36 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > I strongly suggest you use distribution default settings when it comes
> > to Phonon and Pulseaudio, so if a basic installation gives you PA,
> > don't remove it afterwards, as it was obviously meant to be used with
> > it. Since Kubuntu uses basically what Sid provides, with rather small
> > changes to KDE, I think you should first rule out that you didn't
> > inadvertently disable PA when ti was meant to be used.
> 
> Okay. I hear you:
> 
> I removed the USB sound card after having this interference noise during
> bath  once again.
> 
> Now I also installed pulseaudio 4.0-6 and removed all phonon related I
> could  find (.config/kde.org/libphonon.conf,
> .kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc and some service files for vlc and
> gstreamer plugins in ./kde/share/config)
> 
> I also installed rtkit.
> 
> 
> And I got audio glitches again. Dropouts.

On the positive side: Hibernation and resume seems to work. Sort of.

It loops the last sample on hibernation for about 10-20 seconds and about 
resume for about a minute until it has fully loaded itself back from swap.

Well the machine has 1,25 GiB RAM – I gave 1 GiB to my sister who uses her old 
ThinkPad for work, mine is just playing music –, thus for creating the 
hibernation image it may have to swap out from of main memory and it needs to 
swap in.

Still I think it should not repeat the same sample all over again when there 
is no new data. Expected result is: Fall quiet on hibernation, continue on 
resume.

I think I will try this without Pulseaudio and see whether it works better. 
But at least for suspend and resume it seems I am getting somewhere.

And I think I will look out for some T6x or even T400 once in a while and 
possibly grab one. Seems removing the USB sound card removes some complexity 
by itself. I cannot build a PCI express card into the T42 obviously, there 
might be a PCMCIA sound card, but I think then its better to upgrade the 
hardware altogether. It doesn´t even need to be a laptop, but I am used to it 
and it doesn´t take much space.

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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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