> 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. And therein lies the rub. There are times when I can start up my X session, and it appears that everything works...then, other times, I start up my X session and I get a popup box indicating that PulseAudo wouldn't work because of something, and it's falling back to another mode of sound. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
