[conspire] Good page about debugging Linux audio problems

[Ruben Safir]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:11:14AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
> > Actually, i do think it has a dependency hell and it's archeteture
> > is just insane.
> 
> Maybe I'm becoming a softie in my senescence, but here's the required
> packages in current Debian-stable:
> 
> Depends: libasound2 (>> 1.0.18), libc6 (>= 2.9), libcap2 (>= 2.10),
> libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libgdbm3 (>= 1.8.3), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0),
> libltdl7 (>= 2.2.6b), libpulse0 (= 0.9.21-3+squeeze1), libsamplerate0,
> libsm6, libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libspeexdsp1 (>= 1.2~beta3.2-1),
> libudev0 (>= 0.140), libx11-6, libxtst6, adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.2-13),
> consolekit, udev (>= 143)
> 

I'm not going to belabor the point, but the gbd3 is the thing that gets
my goat.


> 
> That's not light the way a proper kernelspace implementation would be,
> but not what I'd call horrible.
> 
> > And at least in OpenSuse it won't work without gnome.
> 
> Huh.  Appears to be a packaging decision.  (Wow, I wonder what they
> thought they were gaining through that?)  You probably already know, but
> here's a page that gives details, including how to switch to either
> esound or to just plain ALSA:
> 
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Pulseaudio
> 
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