[nzlug] Using the Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit USB on Linux

[Daniel Pittman]

Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> writes:
> On Thursday 01 November 2007 22:31:40 Steve Holdoway wrote:
>
>> Pulse Audio ( http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pa-097.html ) may be of
>> some help. I know it's being added to Fedora 8 but you may want to try
>> building it for your lappie??
>
> Hmm, you're the second person recently to recommend that to me - what
> does it do? 

Nothing especially relevant.  PulseAudio is, at heart, no different to
the esd or NAS systems: a tool for mixing multiple audio inputs,
providing network transparency and the like.


Well, it does ship audio samples containing silence to the sound card
when nothing else is playing, ensuring that it stays constantly busy.

This can, in some cases, remove the click from a sound card generated
when the internals switch on or off the audio output parts as the card
goes idle.

This isn't going to change anything if your card is producing this sound
/while/ it plays, only if it does this at the start or end of the sampel.

> I think the problems with this 'card' are the ALSA drivers aren't very
> complete, so if it uses them, it probably wouldn't get too much
> further.

Yup.  PulseAudio will make absolutely not difference to this.

        Daniel
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