On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:37:26 -0700 stan <eiqep_eiwo_y@xxxxxxx> wrote: > And my suggestion is that pulseaudio should be integrated > into ALSA. That is, it becomes invisible to most users The trouble is, it is really easy to understand why people could grow to hate ALSA. It is way too low level. For instance to get a DVD played with the digital sound directly routed out of the SP/DIF interface on my motherboard, I have to say this: amixer set IEC958 unmute amixer set 'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA' 0 amixer set 'IEC958 Playback Source' PCM exec mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0 -ac hwdts,hwac3, \ -monitoraspect 16:9 -fs That is one heck of a lot of cryptic gibberish when what I ought to be able to do is click a button somewhere that says "Hey! Send the already encoded digital audio to the digital audio interface". (Like I can do in Windows, for instance :-). The problem is, pulseaudio doesn't seem to be solving problems like this. I can at least spend six weeks searching the web to finally come up with the gibberish I need to make ALSA work for this, but as yet, there appears to be no way to make pulseaudio talk to anything except one primary pair of stereo speakers, and if you have more audio options than that, forget it. Combine that with the fact that pulseaudio appears to be desperate to solve some kind of problem I not only don't have, but can't understand, and "yum erase pulseaudio" is far and away my best option. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
