Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
There is a lot of FUD and general mistrust of PA.
Yes. But I think it is honest "FUD".
It is my experience that PulseAudio generally just works and in most
setups makes it much easier to configure sound. But, obviously, with
higher level of abstraction it gets harder to debug problems in the
hidden layers.
Unfortunately it seems like the experience with the new PulseAudio on
some systems really _is_ more glitches and higher cpu load.
The rewritten PulseAudio sound server utilizes new features from the
low-lovel audio drivers, and currently it reveales that there is
problems with some kernel / alsa drivers. PulseAudio might have trigged
the problems, but now it is just the messenger about problems that must
be fixed elsewhere.
It seems to me that it would help a great deal if someone would write
a short statement about what PA is and how it should work. If there
is known readable references, they would help too, as would noting
any known work-arounds for problem.
It would be a great help to those of us who try to give user
support. I'd even put it on my own web space and direct folk to it,
if that would help.
There's a lot of good information on the PulseAudio project pages
themselves:
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FirstSteps
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ
Maybe someone would be interested in summarising some of this and
adding Fedora-specifics on the Fedora wiki to make it a bit less
intimidating for novice users?
I think shomething should be said on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F10Common - but I don't know what ;-)
On the systems where it works it just works and there isn't much to say
about it and no big need for more documentation. And obviously it
_should_ work on all systems.
If it doesn't work then it is a bug which should be filed and fixed.
Unfortunately there seems to be a backlog with that. (See for example
the list on
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/bugs/pulseaudio and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462026)
/Mads
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