As mentioned earlier, I’ve set up an unofficial arch user repository to share my builds with everybody. Today I will elaborate a little more on the provided packages. If you look at the current package list: x264 ffmpeg mplayer ffmpeg-mt mplayer-mt mpd netembryo rxvt-unicode you might be wondering why I provide these packages. All but [...]
After various requests and personal interest in the matter, I finally tryed to get skype working on my Sony Vaio SZ6 with Arch Linux 64bit and pulseaudio installed. Skype and linux never mingled all that well. Supporting linux was never high on their todo list and they surely acted upon it. Skype has never gotten [...]
As a follow up on my article about PulseAudio in Gnome 2.26, I’ll briefly explain how you can install PulseAudio integrated with Gnome in Arch Linux. As mentioned before, the Gnome maintainer in Arch Linux has patched Gnome to the way it was before version 2.26, at least the audio part. It is however very [...]
PulseAudio is together with the new sound applet itself, the most remarkable new feature in the recent GNOME 2.26 release. PulseAudio is a (cross-platform) networked sound server and includes many features such as software mixing of multiple audio streams. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do [...]