Can I have alsa +pulseaudio installed and working properly?

coviex · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Posts: 33

Couple of weeks ago along with skype update pulseaudio was installed.
Skype is the main communication channel in our company so I don't need alternatives here. And I guess keeping it up-to-date is also important (what if it looks good some day).

And now some audio players work and some don't.

I could live with some of this problems.
But inability to up/lower/mute sound in KDE by pressing on keyboard is unbearable.

natrix · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 556

Hello Coviex!

I also have problems between alsa and pulseaudio https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-994372.html. But whenever pulseaudio is more used each day.

Pulseaudio works on alsa, not parallel. Phonon of KDE is not very powerful, you can install an addon as pavucontrol to configure pulseaudio.

Good luck

audiodef · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:21 pm Post subject:

I run gentoostudio.org, and I keep pulseaudio out of it, but I know it can be done because kxstudio does it. Maybe they might have some general advice on that over at http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/.
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

You have a few choices:

• You can prevent Pulseaudio from screwing with your hardware volume control by disabling module-udev-detect and adding module-alsa-{source,sink} lines to the default.pa config file. You might want to change "flat-volumes" in daemon.conf too.
• If you have a non-crappy sound card, or can use more than one, copy the pulseaudio ebuild to your local overlay and rip out the incorrect USE depend on "alsa-plugins[pulseaudio]", which will let your ALSA programs use the card directly instead of PA getting in the way.