I just wanted something not too special - listen On-Line radio stations with my favorite media player jukbox application called Rhythmbox, to watch (read: see) and listen (read: hear) flash videos in Icewasel browser on my Debian desktop, record and play back audio files and getting a working GTalk client which is the recent Pidgin IM software.
So I found myself in trouble - the chaos of ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio and many other (ESD, Jack, aRTs, PortAudio, etc.) sounds systems. However I was quite sure that since Ubuntu as the leader of `Linux Desktop' adopted the PulseAudio I have no choice, unless I'd like to hack all days.
Playing with them and figuring out that I completely don't understand the intentions of the different designs, I found the best documentation at http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup where I could find all I needed. Just a note: check the page and decide - Is this the Year of Linux Desktop?
Cheers
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