Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:22:06 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Bernhard Froehlich" <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> Subject: Re: VirtualBox and HAL / D-Bus / PulseAudio (?) Message-ID: <20100113222206.E545E1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:53:53 %2B0100." <055e22705d8b630023fc8056fb93c533.squirrel@webmail.itac.at>
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> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:53:53 +0100 (CET) > From: "Bernhard Froehlich" <decke@bluelife.at> > Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org > > On Wed, January 13, 2010 10:29 pm, martinko wrote: > > Hello, > > > > As I do run D-Bus but do not run HAL nor PulseAudio on my system I'm > > wondering what are the options and consequences : > > - port option DBUS=on and rc.conf option DBUS=YES but without HAL > > - port option DBUS=off .. what do I lose ? > > You need HAL and DBus for CD/DVD Host access. > > > - port option PULSEAUDIO=on .. what would I gain ? > > PulseAudio did not work until the 3.1.2 portupdate because that includes a > patch to correctly build pulseaudio support. What you gain? You can use > pulseaudio - but when you do not enable it it always falls back to OSS > which is probably fine for almost anybody. To be honest, I can't figure out the value of pulseaudio, period. Modern OSS seems to do everything needed and do it better. I have had all sorts of issues with pulseaudio since it showed up and my general policy is to just say 'no' to it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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