On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:21 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:15 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 12:23 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 17:06 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > I think this is still the best course of action for F7, given some > > > > work to 1) make PulseAudio work (as it doesn't right now for the > > > > above), 2) some integration with the GNOME sound properties so it > > > > spits out the sound events on the right device. > > > > > > This needs to work with fast-user-switching and that is *hard* given > > > that PA hogs the device (or at least used to) and most ALSA playback > > > devices can only have a single opener (no mixing). > > > > > > Also, keep in mind that we're going to enable accessible login > > > (including screen readers) for gdm - I wonder if we need pulse audio > > > running there and how it works with the alsa-pulse plug-in - will > > > pulse-audio be activated on demand? Or will the presence of alsa-pulse > > > just break accessible login because there's no PA instance running? > > > > > > Thanks for looking into this - PA rocks and will make our distro so much > > > better. But it needs to work with f-u-s or we need to decide to do pull > > > either PA or f-u-s. Simple as that. > > > > Does esound work that way? If it doesn't, then you have the exact same > > problem when a user switches on the sound bling in the control-center. > > > > If it does, then what's stopping us from using PA as a drop-in > > replacement for esound? It would/should work just as well as esound did > > before (apart from the fact that I'm told PA hogs the physical device > > instead of going through dmix, which means nothing works unless you have > > a PA sink, or use the ALSA plugin for PA). > > What is stopping us is that esound is not used by default and haven't > for a long time. I'm all for PA but we cannot turn it on by default > until it works with f-u-s. Well, we can, but then f-u-s is useless and I > don't think we want to ship useless products... If f-u-s breaks, right now, when the user ticks the "start up esound so I can get desktop bling", then something is broken, and needs fixing, whether or not we want to enable PA. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
