On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> > Removing PA is far too often jumped on as the 'obvious' fix for >> > resolving any kind of audio problem whatsoever. Even if it had nothing >> > to do with PA in the first place. >> >> And? Random helpful person quickly becomes ignored person, if the >> advice fails to work. >> >> Problem is... removing or disabling PA often -does- solve a problem. > > There's two problems. One, it's often not the _right_ fix - there are > cases where PA's interaction with ALSA reveals bugs in ALSA that > otherwise stay hidden. So disabling PA 'fixes the bug', but in reality > is just sweeping it under the carpet. > > Two, even when the bug is in PA, if everyone just goes around disabling > PA, how are they going to get fixed? Telepathy? > Well, the fix is easy. Do I need repeat it once more? It's been a while :) Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
