Re: delay in sound events.

On July 6, 2008 17:30:48 Colin J Thomson wrote:
> On Sunday 06 July 2008 22:51:50 Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > Does anyone notice the delay in the system sounds, for example if I
> > scroll through my desktops the sound event can take up to a second or
> > more. If I disable Pulse all seems fine.
> >
> > F9 - kde-4.0.84
> >
> > Is this a known problem before I go hunt around bugzilla.
>
> Well I think I have found the solution from the fedora list archives, I was
> part of that thread and totally missed this :-(
>
> Create a new file called /etc/asound.conf with the following
> lines in it.
>
> pcm.pulse {
>     type pulse
> }
>
> ctl.pulse {
>     type pulse
> }
>
> I will test further but so far all seems well, I hope this may help others.
>
> Colin
Yes, I have noticed the delay, too. When using certain applications, like 
kplayer, perhaps others, but not sure if only kde3 apps, pulseaudio always 
crashes and phonon sound falls back to the driver for my sound card (not sure 
if this means it is using straight alsa, or something else). It should be 
noted that the delay only occurs when pulseaudio crashes and the fallback is 
used. When pulseaudio is running, there is no sound delay when switching 
windows.


Your pulseaudio solution is already contained in /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf, 
is it not?

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