[Coco] DW4 and Linux sound

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 17 November 2012 18:43:45 Steven Hirsch did opine:

> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > No clue what is going on with your system Steven, but I have yet to
> > have the DW gui, in any version, interfere with audio on this
> > ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS install.  You may want to look at the gui's
> > config.xml as it probably can be changed.  I am not setup ATM with a
> > DW MIDI descriptor in my boot file, so perhaps 4.3.0 doesn't acquire
> > an audio device in that event?  Here, grepping for /dev/ only shows
> > the ttyUSB1 port I am using for DW.
> 
> Very odd.  I'm using Ubuntu (actually Kubuntu) 10.04 LTS as well.  One
> possiblity: I do not use Pulse audio, since my experience has shown that
> a more proper name would be pulse-but-no-audio.  It breaks just about
> everything if running.  Plain, old, ALSA generally gets along with
> anything.
> 
> I checked the config file and there is no explicit reference to sound. 
> I do have MIDI disabled, FWIW.
> 
> This may be a function of the Java runtime for all I know - Java and I
> generally do not get on well.
> 
> Steve

Pulseaudio is running fine here.
root at coyote:/var/spool/mail# ps -e |grep pulse
 2806 ?        00:07:33 pulseaudio

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