Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 12:49:46 +0100 From: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best sound subsystem for freebsd for a desktop Message-ID: <20200524114946.GA84757@bastion.zyxst.net> In-Reply-To: <9bfbb6e7-9d04-bc5e-d196-9c70f59f6528@nebelschwaden.de> References: <20200519141914.GF23072@bastion.zyxst.net> <9bfbb6e7-9d04-bc5e-d196-9c70f59f6528@nebelschwaden.de>
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--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, thank you all for your inputs :D On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 11:47:11AM +0200, Ede Wolf wrote: >If I am not mistaken, there are two soundsystems in FreeBSD: OSS and the >newer pcm. OSS may just be layer ontop of pcm, these days. My problem is when building sound ports, I dunno what's best. Basically I w= ant low-latency high quality stereo sound. I'm not a musician. But I want to pl= ay music etc on a nice set of speakers. >Then on top of that one may have a sound server, running in userspace. >Most popular nowadays being pulseaudio, the successor of ESD. Or jack, >popular for low latency audio work. Pulseaudo gives me the heebigeebees a bit because it seems to want to wind itself round everything. Additionally, I don't understand it. >A sound server abstracts the low level audio api and allows stuff like >multiple audio streams (like "you have new mail" and listening to bsd >now on youtube), in case the hardware (or the underlying sound system) >does not. > >Now the FreeBSD audio subsystem, to my little knowledge, allows for >mixing multiple streams. The question is, does this need a special setup >for typical desktop applications? I do not know. > >If not, you may skip using a soundserver. For my use, it depends on the context really. If I'm doing actual work I'll want say maybe a favourite internet radio station playing, but I'll also wa= nt mail notifications and the odd bleep to be heard as well, but for some seri= ous music playing, loud, in my non-work time id like to easily turn those bleeps off and high fidelity. >Deping on your choice of windowmanager or desktop environment, it would >get started automatically or you may have take care of that yourself. choice of windowmanager is a whole other can o' worms. I was using xfce4 fo= r a while but over the last few months it's been using 100% cpu constantly so I= 've switched back to windowmaker which ive been using since the late 90s and ha= ve got my very responsive desktop back. I'd like to try something more modern like kde5 sometime though. Really need a recent walkthrough/howto in the context of nvidia because this is way out of my area of expertise. Years ago I'd just configure sound_drv in the kernel and it'd just work. I didn't know jack was something for low-latency, accurate work. Maybe i'll t= ry that. thanks, --=20 J. --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEE8n3tWhxW11Ccvv9/s8o7QhFzNAUFAl7KX2wACgkQs8o7QhFz NAWI0Q/+Is5O6vrrp0XQEvKF1Tk8kZl5PUHvERF0npWSYybqVgzPHHmEuRUYeZbi jaSj4WL5nBdCZuVeCa+OD+bg3iifK8It7EZjd/zIbX1cgQscIRh5zXOpws9ZTkJt s0/V4Vdb9udg39APiA//HvI5iuKKKy2RJNmwfFJDTXOLXa0lUhboPu0eXmxbXQqV O7DMT8fuRgEqKtaTtDngXQUF5YPV0us2vqS1TAbbWZKSPBn4kXAxDr3Yc/uEQ9g+ zXER25AH/LPxu6vNOUOULT4p9tefscNltpmZD2Hxjeh9ZUCaEXvQxhvP3xF0pWNb bhhlxCiozf1idJ0dkYMffhfm4iKsNYTYG/nmXxnU8HjP4zqbKMMUVK7+PMCZjRWS Pm5PXKQ926+gJzmrPeesbTuLEVcxSk9lw+pid/102f/secEKJYQGFkTeZPeI81eu 63eiQlrLf/QWUhgn0X/z3ZMPZWGV/9EwFPkVpzecH1bN4TXcwEVSBkLa97cMi434 gA9o/mgHAV1Qp/d7OuZrGx7130dy0gLjV/ae5ICxsGl0TZUDyQnZRySR7vuSkOC2 Sd021YJ77oSikF6YYJP4vquBkelgR1Rx2dDIdc/7qAV9RUhcO11uMOBXkAzuDT8Z EF5U07ixkUrRFDKib1pz+mVGA/yLvLRkkxXU8lxf3q+Aekvn4z4= =Uf2a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL--
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