randomsound should be able to use Pulseaudio for input
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| randomsound (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Basically all the other bugs on this package are to do with randomsound being an ALSA program.
This means it blocks the audio device. Even with the workarounds like starting it after pulseaudio starts, it blocks the mike and renders it useless for other programs.
If it could use Pulseaudio for input, it would no longer be a problem. Not sure if this causes problems (randomsound is a system daemon.. is Pulseaudio a user process?)
In my case : the workaround is to not allow it to start at boot
sudo update-rc.d -f randomsound remove
.. and only start it when I know I'll be depleting the entropy pool. I have a couple of tasks like generating keys and signing jar files that block horribly without it. But I also need to be able to webconference.
You could get another sound device just for randomsound to monopolize... (or even as a cheap HRNG for a server - listen to all that aircon whitenoise in your server room...)
