PulseAudio vs. Alsa

tknomanzr · 2015-10-30 04:30:32

I wanted to post back with an update after some testing. Tonight, I setup pasystray on this laptop which always give me sound trouble and which I have had setup for testing sound. Pasystray was able to figure out the correct sound sink for it. One small thing, it tossed some debug messages out into the console, which you can see messing with mocp. I also hooked a tv up to the main desktop system via hdmi (Actually display out converted to hdmi via cable.) Testing showed I was able to select either the tv HDMI output or the default analog sound and direct sound per application to one or the other. The main drawback to it that I see is that it uses gnome's icon for sound by default. I saw no easy way to change it but I am sure I could fiddle with symlinks or something and get a different one running.
Below is a screen of the laptop showing pasystray and the proper sound sink selected on first run.

The volti walkthrough I posted has a help request and I am thinking I might ask the guy to try this out and see if it solves his usb sound issues.

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hhh · 2015-10-30 14:34:16

Bummer, 404 on that scrot.

tknomanzr · 2015-10-30 14:50:10

I edited the post with the correct link to the scrot. I am not sure what went on there. Url ended up scrambled with debian wiki stuff somehow. Also, the errors messages I mention were simply because I was running pasystray from the terminal in the background, so it was sending its output to that terminal. Doesn't happen when autostarted.

Also what is not apparent from that scrot is I can send any application stream to any sink, so for instance, on my desktop I could start netflix from chrome and send its output to the HDMI tv output, then run mocp from terminal and let it use the analog output. This should also be doable from pavucontrol.

Also, I should note, I pulled in the entire suite for testing. However, several things are listed as suggests. If not installed, their respective menu entries in pasystray will be grayed out. You can see the Debian entry here: https://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/pasystray

Last edited by tknomanzr (2015-10-30 14:54:49)

hhh · 2015-10-30 15:12:03

OK, thanks.

One issue with pasystray we have is that I think it doesn't allow using mouse-scroll over the icon to adjust volume, and a lot of #! users want that feature.

I'll have to look into this more later, thanks a bunch for your work on this!

tknomanzr · 2015-10-30 15:18:17

Actually, it does, for me at least. Now on a laptop, that's a different story but then it is probably just me still wanting my macbook gesture support, lol.

hhh · 2015-10-30 15:22:51

Good to know, thaks!

johnraff · 2015-10-31 01:52:03

hhh wrote:

One issue with pasystray we have is that I think it doesn't allow using mouse-scroll over the icon to adjust volume...

The issue was that mouse-scrolling was the only way to adjust volume. Trouble with icons too. (Doesn't that sound familiar? )

#61 2015-10-30 04:30:32

Re: PulseAudio vs. Alsa

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