[ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in F-14

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:21:26AM +0100, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:46 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> >
> >> PulseAudio is interresting project, but it's absolutely unusable on old
> >> slow hardware. Last time I checked it out on Pentium TSC (no MMX)
> >> running at 200 MHz, it consumed 20 % of CPU just in idle mode. While
> >> `playing', it congested CPU, printed some warnings about stream buffer
> >> overflow and terminated gracefully complaining about no CPU cycles. NAS
> >> or Esound work on the machine fluently.
> >
> > PA uses a more correct but more CPU-intensive resampling method than
> > ALSA by default. On very slow systems it's a good idea to
> > edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and change the 'resample-method' parameter.
> 
> Is there a recommended value for slow machines or a way to tell PA
> just to use the HW?

'man pulse-daemon.conf' reports that using 'trivial' is worst quality
but easier on slow machines.

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