On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:54:43PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:13:12PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Oh, and since you seem to hate PA really that much: just disable it! > > Just remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and you have it back, your naked > > ALSA. > > No, we'd just like it to be usable in other contexts than laptops. We > don't need another NM-like story. Especially since Fedora would like > to make it mandatory (for very good reasons too). > > An example of real use I have at home: > > - Main desktop machine is connected to speakers through normal wires > and to the living room ac3/dts through toslink > > - Both the GF & I are usually logged on that machine, her with KDE on > Ctrl-Alt-F7 and me with fvwm2 on Ctrl-Alt-F8. Adding pulseaudio -D in > my startup wouldn't be a problem. > > - User switching, as it is, is just C-A-F7/C-A-F8 > > - Additionally, we often ssh to the machine from our laptops to start > music using xmms/audacious/mplayer sending on spdif to hear it in > the living room. Files are on the desktop machine, so we'd rather > do X than nfs+pcm over the wifi. > > Can PA do that? Can PA be modified to support that? No answer from me on this one, but I would like to make a comment. This was an excellent example of a well-worded question with specific and actionable detail, rather than the lot of handwaving I've seen in several other parts of the thread. People on IRC have been asking for a way to setup a test environment to see these scenarios that everybody has been complaining about, but so far, nobody has given enough detail to actually do anything. Thank you, Olivier. -- Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
