On Wed, 13.02.08 14:04, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > On experimentation in Mandriva we've found a few problems with the > launching via esdcompat. As pulse takes longer to initialise than esd > did, the timeouts for starting "esd" are no longer accurate and this > leads to a few issues (e.g. login sound not playing etc.). One super > fast hardware this is not a major issue but for a lot of ppl it is. > > We found that by using xinit.d to start pulse (which also works for all > desktops, not just Gnome & E) it was more reliable and even if esdcompat > was run by gnome-session, pulse had already initialised and all was well. > > YMMV but I thought I'd report it back. Hmm, I wonder if there are any drawbacks of this way to start PA. Does gnome-session still upload the samples correctly if it doesn't start esd/PA by itself? It has been a while since I last had a look on the g-s source code. If that's not a problem, than I might do a similar change on Fedora, too. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
