On Thursday 28 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>Steve Underwood wrote:
>> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio.
>
>Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAudio
> is
>evil.
>
>> Its a very troublesome program with poor documentation, and little
>> output
>> to help you resolve problems. If you get it working it seems to offer
>> you
>> nothing you didn't have before you had pulseaudio.
+1000
>
>It makes sound just work, without apps fighting for the sound device (or
>multiple incompatible sound servers all trying to "fix" this fighting for
>the sound device). No more annoyances like games failing to play sound
>because some GUI event sound was still being played when they tried
> opening
>the sound device. (I've seen, or rather heard, that happen way too often
> in
>pre-PulseAudio times.)
Yeah, but with it working, only the system beep works...
>Most sound cards don't do mixing in hardware. A few do support it, but
> the
>ALSA driver doesn't. Only few sound cards can do it and have ALSA support
>for it. So PulseAudio is a mixing solution which works for everyone.
>
> Kevin Kofler
If only it worked...
And I will continue to denigrate it until we have a configuration tool
that
WILL let us make it work regardless of ones choice of hardware.
And therein lies the rub.
There are times when I can start up my X session, and it appears that
everything works...then, other times, I start up my X session and I get a
popup box indicating that PulseAudo wouldn't work because of something,
and it's falling back to another mode of sound.
--
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org
Visit the Dog Pound II BBS
telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or
http://dogpound2.citadel.org
To be notified of updates to the web site, visit:
https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update
or send a blank email message to:
site-update-subscribe(a)bubbanfriends.org