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Rich.West at wesmo

Apr 7, 2008, 8:09 AM

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Fedora 8 + ATrpms mythtv install - pulseaudio?

I'm looking at upgrading my Fedora 7 frontend installs to Fedora 8, and
in my tests the only hurdle was pulseaudio.

I try to keep my frontend systems relatively slim by disabling
unnecessary daemons and such, and my impressions of pulseaudio is that
it is yet another layer of unnecessary bloat. I'm running straight ALSA
under Fedora 7, but to get everything working under Fedora 8, it
requires tinkering with pulseaudio to talk to ALSA by turning on a
gnome-applet (among other things), enabling ConsoleKit and avahi-daemon
(yuck).

Has anyone tried ripping out the pulseaudio layer successfully with
ATrpms mythtv rpms?

-Rich
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lifter89 at comcast

Apr 7, 2008, 8:28 AM

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Re: Fedora 8 + ATrpms mythtv install - pulseaudio? [In reply to]

Rich West wrote:
> I'm looking at upgrading my Fedora 7 frontend installs to Fedora 8, and
> in my tests the only hurdle was pulseaudio.
>
> I try to keep my frontend systems relatively slim by disabling
> unnecessary daemons and such, and my impressions of pulseaudio is that
> it is yet another layer of unnecessary bloat. I'm running straight ALSA
> under Fedora 7, but to get everything working under Fedora 8, it
> requires tinkering with pulseaudio to talk to ALSA by turning on a
> gnome-applet (among other things), enabling ConsoleKit and avahi-daemon
> (yuck).
>
> Has anyone tried ripping out the pulseaudio layer successfully with
> ATrpms mythtv rpms?
>
> -Rich
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>
I don't remember exactly what I had to do, but I had no sound when
pulseaudio was on my system on Fedora 8 (x86_64). I think I just did a
"yum remove pulseaudio" and this allowed the ALSA drivers to work as
they used to. I believe that I followed the advice found here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/321345?search_string=pulseaudio;#321345
and it worked out for me.

Good luck. Hope this helps!
Harry

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bolek-mythtv at curl

Apr 7, 2008, 8:32 AM

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Re: Fedora 8 + ATrpms mythtv install - pulseaudio? [In reply to]

Rich West wrote:
> Has anyone tried ripping out the pulseaudio layer successfully with
> ATrpms mythtv rpms?

Yes, I did this on one F8 box (BE/FE). The only pulseaudio package that
is left is pulseaudio-libs because mplayer and mythvideo rpms require
it. I don't think it's being used though.

Bolek
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Rich.West at wesmo

Apr 7, 2008, 10:10 AM

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Re: Fedora 8 + ATrpms mythtv install - pulseaudio? [In reply to]

Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:
> Rich West wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried ripping out the pulseaudio layer successfully with
>> ATrpms mythtv rpms?
>>
>
> Yes, I did this on one F8 box (BE/FE). The only pulseaudio package that
> is left is pulseaudio-libs because mplayer and mythvideo rpms require
> it. I don't think it's being used though.

Cool. Thanks! I don't know exactly what I did, but I have sound
working now with mythtv under Fedora 8 again. Prior to having
pulseaudio installed, I had no sound (except that I could play sound via
the Fedora control panel), so I installed all of the pulseaudio stuff
(following http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=177587) and
got it working. In this situation, pulseaudio buys me nothing except
for additional processes running and another layer of configuration to
deal with, so I ripped it out. Oddly, sound stayed working...

And, yes, the only thing left is pulseaudio-libes due to mplayer and
mythvideo rpm dependencies.

-Rich

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