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 * The fact - contrary to what is stated in many places on the web - is that as of wheezy, you can have ALSA, pulseaudio, phonon, and Jackd all running at the same time - interacting peacefully for the most part. ( Instructions here from the 'Pulseaudio maintenance team'' on how to provide useful bug reports would be helpful. )pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org  * The fact - contrary to what is stated in many places on the web - is that as of wheezy, you can have ALSA, pulseaudio, phonon, and Jackd all running at the same time - interacting peacefully for the most part.

== How to Provide Useful Bug Reports ==
( Instructions here from the 'Pulseaudio maintenance team'' on how to provide useful bug reports would be helpful. )

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Configuration

Overview of current state

  • The sound stack in Linux has been the weakest link in Linux-as-a-desktop, and documentation on the web is often conflicting, out-of-date and dispiriting. Part of the problem is that pulseaudio was released before it was ready. The good news is that as of wheezy it pretty much works as advertised.
  • According to the PulseAudio folks, this is how you should see your sound system: Graphic of PulseAudio based system

  • According to ALSA this is how you should see your sound system: Graphic of ALSA based system

  • According to Jackd, this is how you should see your sound system: Graphic of Jackd based system

  • ALSA was working pretty well until the push to use pulse audio - pulseaudio was somewhat of a mess in squeeze.

    Here is a bit of an http://tuxradar.com/content/how-it-works-linux-audio-explained explanation of the different sound services found in linux systems.

  • ?Blutooth Sound Devices Works under KDE with bluedevil as the GUI as of wheezy

  • The fact - contrary to what is stated in many places on the web - is that as of wheezy, you can have ALSA, pulseaudio, phonon, and Jackd all running at the same time - interacting peacefully for the most part.

How to Provide Useful Bug Reports

( Instructions here from the 'Pulseaudio maintenance team on how to provide useful bug reports would be helpful. )

Programs

  • ALSA Provides the driver level code for sound and a basic application interface

  • ?PulseAudio Provides a more advanced application interface and can glue ALSA, jackd, phonon together

  • ?jackd2 Low latency sound system for pro audio mixing.

  • ?phonon KDE's sound interface - the setup can set configurations that pulseaudio uses to pick which sound device to use

  • ?buledevil KDE gui app for the bluetooth headsets stack

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