[ale] Fixing systemd and pulseaudio: was UEFI vs BIOS understanding

[Jim Ransone]

As a relatively non-technical person who uses my computer for audio 
stuff, having to deal with alsa, pulseaudio, and jack has been a 
confusing hassle. What I gathered from spending way too much time 
reading and watching tutorials to figure this stuff out is that alsa is 
the base level, pulseaudio rides on top of that and handles audio for 
most common applications but lacks the low-latency necessary for audio 
recording. Hence the need for Jack. Then you need to figure out how to 
make jack and pulseaudio play nice and function along side each other. 
It's a mess. Thankfully, the new version of Ardour recommends just using 
alsa by itself. It makes sense that this would be faster. And it 
prevents me from spiraling down a rabbit hole of confusion trying to 
figure out why my audio isn't working. So now I have no need for Jack at 
all, and pulseaudio does whatever it does without bothering me. The only 
downside is that when Ardour is running, youtube videos will not play. A 
little annoying, but I can live with it.

Jim

On 12/21/20 12:17 PM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> Or pick a distro that is already modified.
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 11:55 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org 
> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/21/20 11:50 AM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
>     > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:08:09 -0500
>     > DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >> Someday, systemd and pulseaudio will be "fixed" by removal, which
>     >> would be good.
>     >
>     > That day can't come fast enough.
>     >
>     > SteveT
>     >
>     > Steve Litt
>     >
>
>     There are days when "Linux From Scratch" seems like a great idea...
>
>     -- 
>     Leam
>
>     System Programmer for Hire (reuel.net/resume
>     <http://reuel.net/resume>)
>     Chronicler: The Domici War (domiciwar.net <http://domiciwar.net>)
>     General Ne'er-do-well      (github.com/LeamHall
>     <http://github.com/LeamHall>)
>     _______________________________________________
>     Ale mailing list
>     Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
>     https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>     See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>     http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20201221/28cad9dd/attachment.html>