2008/10/21 Dennis J. <dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 10/21/2008 06:34 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> >> Dennis J. wrote: >> >>> It's obvious that the specific interaction between pulseaudio and alsa is >>> the problem in these cases but if neither of the stakeholders feel >>> particular responsible for addressing the issue then I don't see how this >>> will ever get resolved. >> >> Personally, I've not seen any dismissing of responsibility, and leveling >> such claims doesn't seem constructive to me. > > I filed bug #428537 when my card stopped working after an PA update and that > report got dismissed with "There's something wrong with your ALSA. Try if > upgrading ALSA fixes your problems." by the PA maintainer. It didn't and I > pointed that out but got no further response. > > That sounds fairly dismissive to me. > >> I can understand the frustration (ie, "fix it now!"), but fixing such >> issues >> is often complex, and doing it properly is the only sane way forward. > > I didn't say "fix it now!" and my point is precisely that these bugs cannot > be fixed if there is nobody to report them to. If the PA maintainers > immediately dismiss this as an alsa problem an there is really no decent bug > that can be filed against alsa because alsa by itself works just fine then > how am I supposed to report issues like these? > > Given that these problem deal with the interaction of two different > subsystems I would like to see the maintainers of these subsystems to come > to some kind of understanding what to do in these cases. If the PA guys want > to deal with this fine, if the ALSA guys want to deal with this fine too but > right now there seems to be nobody to go to for this stuff. > > Regards, > Dennis > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > have a look to activities on related packages (pulseaudio and alsa...) -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
