From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: PulseAudio Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 16:35:45 -0500 Message-ID: <20160209213545.GB10329@jasmine> References: <8737u160jz.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh6ty3wb.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTFwp-0006O7-NT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:35:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTFwn-0006Rm-BR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:35:47 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:35544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTFwn-0006RW-3P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:35:45 -0500 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B225C210E9 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 16:35:43 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lh6ty3wb.fsf@dustycloud.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 01:26:32PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > >> I guess the factors are: > >> 1) Does GuixSD have a default audio setup that we should target? If > >> GuixSD uses PulseAudio, then I think it would be good for eSpeak to be > >> integrated into that sytem. > >> 2) Does this package, which launches PulseAudio, work for anyone on a > >> foreign distro? > > > > It’s not written anywhere, but I think most of our audio packages target > > PulseAudio (that’s what I use on GuixSD.) I’m in favor of consistently > > using it, and it would probably be best to write it down in the manual. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Ludo’. > > I'd really like it if we just agreed that in general, yeah, we want > Pulseaudio support. I used to spend all sorts of time fighting my audio > setup, being careful on what application opened first so I could be sure > which one grabbed control of Alsa. I hadn't had this problem in a few > years, and it was so nice not to worry about it, but on Guix I've had > some times where I have again... eg playing audio/video in Icecat > seems not to use it for whatever reason, and it's a bummer, because then > I have to be careful about when I start rhythmbox or whatever. > > I'd love to mostly not worry/think about audio issues again! Heh, that's why I uninstall PulseAudio every time a Debian upgrade brings it in ;) All kidding aside, I'm happy to push this with PulseAudio support, *if* a GuixSD user can confirm that it works. I don't have sound on my GuixSD installation.