On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 08:51 -0500, Dr. Diesel wrote:
>
>> This is supported by the zillions of forum messages asking how to fix
>> or remove pulseaudio. Not to mention the billion post thread here on
>> devel.
>
> In my experience, this is a more common pattern:
>
> $POOR_NEWBIE: I have a problem with audio.
> $RANDOM_'HELPFUL'_PERSON: Oh, you need to remove PulseAudio!
>
> Removing PA is far too often jumped on as the 'obvious' fix for
> resolving any kind of audio problem whatsoever. Even if it had nothing
> to do with PA in the first place.
And? Random helpful person quickly becomes ignored person, if the
advice fails to work.
Problem is... removing or disabling PA often -does- solve a problem.
Rather, it works around it. The problems in the kernel drivers are
usually still there...