stevepusser wrote:I managed to get my own backports built from the Sid source on the openSUSE build service, with ALSA sound support compiled back in.
Thanks dude, I was tracking down some sources to fix my sudden lack of audio, but now I think I'll just grab your .deb
This whole PulseAudio thing is really starting to yank my chain, why on earth does anyone need the thing anyway?
Apart from network audio (and there are alternatives for this corner-case anyway), I'm at a loss for any convincing reasons to use pulse at all. All I have ever managed to get out of it is dumbed down mixer controls, horrific latency and a tendency to louse up my DE (KDE) and anything else with a mixer.
I have a nasty feeling that I'll have to install pulseaudio someday or loose audio in a bunch of "modern" apps (SystemD all over again?)
so on the off chance that someone knows how (and doesn't bite me for thread-jacking), here's what I need:
Default PCM downmixed to stereo, simultaneous output on analogue out (hw0,0) and PCM SPDIF (hw0,1). Software volume control on SPDIF with double resolution (200 ticks) and approx -60 - -20 dB range.
I have this working nicely with the vdownmix, multi and softvol ALSA plugins. Am I better to go with pulse (assuming it can do what I need it to) or apulse (which looks a little kludgy TBH) feeding alsa?
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