On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 11:26 +0800, Lao Yu wrote:
Hi,
since the release of F9 I look at the audio part of Linux - I
personally find it a complete disaster and 'user-hostile' to be
polite. Many on this list are software specialists, so please don't
look down on someone who doesn't want to follow 3 pages of
instructions of how to make pulse audio work 'on top of' ALSA -
especially if there are follow-ups on the relevant forums that they
still don't have any signal output. My laptop currently runs F9 (or WinXP) and works is an mp3 player,
full stop. From posts on the fedora list I understand that my
situation is even better than many others who don't even get that to
work. My question is, how does Ubuntu studio compare to Fedora? Before I
start doctoring with my laptop and install Ubuntu 9.04 instead of F9
I'm scratching my head. Thanks for any comments.
you can download an ubuntu iso and burn it on cd and start it safely from there. you will quickly see, how well your soundcard and card configuration in your laptop is supported. personally, i don't have any experience with fedora, but i'd say for ubuntu at least it is difficult to make general statement. of course, the ubuntu dev team is eager to fix as many problems as possible, but still in most cases it is simply a matter of whether the included alsa version supports a certain card/configuration or not. i've made very different experiences in terms of sound working out of the box, altough most of the time it works without tweaking.
i found, that the jack audioserver is a lot easier to setup and integrates much better in more recent versions of ubuntu. after starting jack (e.g. with qjackctl), it's even possible to launch pulseaudio automatically, so that it uses jack as the backend. this means, that even non-jack capable applications can be captured by puredata, for instance.
i mention jack, because i found, that puredata runs quite stable with jack and has only little dropouts. it sometimes it still works well with jack, eventough you get a lot of 'tried but couldn't sync A/D/A' messages and crackling noises with alsa.
before doctoring around, i really would only test your setup from a live-cd - just to check, if you can get a workable setup in one session. if not, and if you dislike tinkering around, then let it be, i'd say.
in order to test, if puredata & audio works for you, you need to perform the following steps (after you launched the live-cd):
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-enable-the-universe-and-multiverse-reposito...
if you come that far within a reasonable amount of time, ubuntu might be an option for you.
let us know your progess.
roman
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