On Thursday 28 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: >Steve Underwood wrote: >> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio. > >Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAudio is >evil. > >> Its a very troublesome program with poor documentation, and little output >> to help you resolve problems. If you get it working it seems to offer you >> nothing you didn't have before you had pulseaudio. +1000 > >It makes sound just work, without apps fighting for the sound device (or >multiple incompatible sound servers all trying to "fix" this fighting for >the sound device). No more annoyances like games failing to play sound >because some GUI event sound was still being played when they tried opening >the sound device. (I've seen, or rather heard, that happen way too often in >pre-PulseAudio times.) Yeah, but with it working, only the system beep works... >Most sound cards don't do mixing in hardware. A few do support it, but the >ALSA driver doesn't. Only few sound cards can do it and have ALSA support >for it. So PulseAudio is a mixing solution which works for everyone. > > Kevin Kofler If only it worked... And I will continue to denigrate it until we have a configuration tool that WILL let us make it work regardless of ones choice of hardware. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
