On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com> wrote:
If you want to read up on the different sound components, just do a google search. There's tons of articles out there, some very good, mostly a bit crap. Lennart Pottering (dev for Pulse) has a particularly good one I recall. Most on Arch wouldn't like his conclusions though.
I collected some article/blogs about pulseaudio, in case anyone is interested. 1) PA detractor (both articles have been slashdotted) http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/05/sorry-state-of-sound-in-linux.html http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorr... 2) PA defenders interview of Lennart Poettering (PA dev at redhat) http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/sound-of-fedora-11.html his blog : http://0pointer.de/blog/projects Many info about PA there, just one example : http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html blog of colin guthr (another PA dev) : http://colin.guthr.ie/tag/pulseaudio/ Also many interesting articles, for example : http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-anti-fud-calm-certainty-and-con... (answer to 1)) http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-is-confusing-defuzzing-part-1-a... http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-is-confusing-defuzzing-part-2-p... ------------------ If you are just interested about getting PA working, and not about the how and why, you should probably just read the following wiki, instead of all the links above : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup