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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bryn M. Reeves <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmr@redhat.com">bmr@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Anne Wilson wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">There is a lot of FUD and general mistrust of PA. 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.<br>
<br>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.<br></blockquote><br></div>There's a lot of good information on the PulseAudio project pages themselves:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio</a><br><a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FirstSteps" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FirstSteps</a><br>
<a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup</a><br><a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ</a><br>
<br>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?<br><br>Regards,<br>Bryn.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>
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<div><br><br clear="all">I think documentation would be great, but what really intimidates novices is the fact that</div>
<div>PA, in a lot of scenarios, simply doesn't work (at all or as expected) and many don't stay and</div>
<div>fiddle with the settings or whatnot, they just switch to another distro. So the first step</div>
<div>is to make an audio system that works ok, then document it.<br>-- <br>Aioanei Rares<br><a href="mailto:schaiba@fedoraproject.org">schaiba@fedoraproject.org</a><br>"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." --Charles de Gaulle <br>
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