On Thursday 26 June 2008, Bill Davidsen wrote:
David Boles wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>> <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well the main idea behind PA is to eradicate that problem since it
>> will be a super set
>
> And, as I said, I have no problems with Pulseaudio. Why? Well I have a
> desktop
> with 'normal' hardware. I don't have anything fancy. And, for me Fedora
> works
> 'out of the box'. Actually I normally (currently) run rawhide and I only
> have
> the 'development breakage', to be expected, from time to time.
>
> I won't name, on the Fedora list, the other Linux distros that I have
> installed and that run with no, or minor, problems. But there are nine
> of them.
Awwww, Gee. We still have the 1st amendment here.
> So? Am I just lucky? Or do I just have compatible hardware? Or do
I just
> not
> try to do "strange things'? I can't say.
Have you ever tried to use a microphone or line input for recording or
telephony? I have four system, all of which worked pre-PA, none of which
work with PA, all of which work with PA removed, for both ALSA and
simulated OSS applications. So if trying to get sound into the computer
is "strange things," then I guess I do them.
As do I, David. And PA wrecked it all until I had gotten out the knife and
removed as much of it as I could. This is not to say that something like PA
isn't potentially useful, but to ship a completely broken PA, and then the only
help offered was the advice to remove it, seems to be highly counter-productive
to getting it, or something like it, working.
However, here on this system PA was a solution (if it worked, I'm dubious) in
search of a problem I didn't have.
--
Cheers, Gene
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