prosonik
November 8th, 2008, 06:59 PM
Hi Everybody,
For My mythbuntu pc, I'd like to use BOXEE as the primary Frontend, as it's way more sexy and useful then mythfrontend. However, I have no end of frustration trying to get Boxee to play nicely with gnome.I have tried the 'kill pulseaudio' method, however in GNOME, when I kill pulseaudio, I get no sound at all. I tried all sorts of settings in the audio configuration.. I worked through the pulseaudio Howto, and resolve most of my non-boxee related issues.. But Boxee itself still (and the SDL library?) still wasn't playing nice with pulse. Reading the dev mailing list over, it seems like the answer is to route around the pulse ALSA plugging that is causing the problems, but I'm not sure how to do that.
Anyways, reading through the forums, somebody suggested to make a new profile and try BOXEE from there. The idea is that it will have the default (not screwed with settings). I'm happy to report that it worked great. I created a new profile using XFCE (might as well use the default mythbuntu desktop). Well, it turns out that i killed two birds with one profile. XFCE in 8.04 by default does NOT use pulseaudio by default and viola, it works.. With a new profile there is no .asoundrc or anything other configuration lying around confusing the issue. I'm lazy, so when I do anything that a I really need GNOME for, i can easily logout and login with gnome-profile.
To summarize my long winded post; If your having problems with BOXEE and your lazy try XFCE instead of gnome. KDE may also do the trick.
pro
For My mythbuntu pc, I'd like to use BOXEE as the primary Frontend, as it's way more sexy and useful then mythfrontend. However, I have no end of frustration trying to get Boxee to play nicely with gnome.I have tried the 'kill pulseaudio' method, however in GNOME, when I kill pulseaudio, I get no sound at all. I tried all sorts of settings in the audio configuration.. I worked through the pulseaudio Howto, and resolve most of my non-boxee related issues.. But Boxee itself still (and the SDL library?) still wasn't playing nice with pulse. Reading the dev mailing list over, it seems like the answer is to route around the pulse ALSA plugging that is causing the problems, but I'm not sure how to do that.
Anyways, reading through the forums, somebody suggested to make a new profile and try BOXEE from there. The idea is that it will have the default (not screwed with settings). I'm happy to report that it worked great. I created a new profile using XFCE (might as well use the default mythbuntu desktop). Well, it turns out that i killed two birds with one profile. XFCE in 8.04 by default does NOT use pulseaudio by default and viola, it works.. With a new profile there is no .asoundrc or anything other configuration lying around confusing the issue. I'm lazy, so when I do anything that a I really need GNOME for, i can easily logout and login with gnome-profile.
To summarize my long winded post; If your having problems with BOXEE and your lazy try XFCE instead of gnome. KDE may also do the trick.
pro