Re: delay in sound events.

On Monday 07 July 2008 03:53:23 kwhiskerz wrote:
> 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
> > }

> 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.

OK, thanks for the info, at least I am not the only one to notice this,

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

Indeed you are right, after more tests the asound.conf I added did not seem to 
help.

Cheers

Colin
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