From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 13 22:22:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906181065670 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:22:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from mailgw.es.net (mail3.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:4c01::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628B68FC1E for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:910::29]) by mailgw.es.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0DMM7qf026164 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:22:07 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id E545E1CC0E; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:22:06 -0800 (PST) To: "Bernhard Froehlich" In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:53:53 +0100." <055e22705d8b630023fc8056fb93c533.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:22:06 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20100113222206.E545E1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5, 1.2.40, 4.0.166 definitions=2010-01-13_11:2010-01-05, 2010-01-13, 2010-01-13 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1001130208 Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, martinko Subject: Re: VirtualBox and HAL / D-Bus / PulseAudio (?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:22:19 -0000 > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:53:53 +0100 (CET) > From: "Bernhard Froehlich" > 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