Don't be afraid to ask for help

[Jon Ciesla]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 20:22:56 -0800,
>  Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, pulseaudio doesn't currently build, and that's preventing us from
>> fixing the bug that audio doesn't work in F17. The problem is apparently
>> in assembler code, though, so fixing it is unlikely to be trivial.
>>
>> Lennart was working on it, but I've not heard from him on that for a few
>> days.
>
> It looks like this is on its way to being solved.
> Lennart asked about this and in the thread got this reply:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaudio-discuss%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg02702.html
> Which referenced this fix.
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=bluez.git;a=blob;f=sbc_mmx.patch;h=2f00bb6856fb8e313f332d8ed90ca65a3a58de3a;hb=HEAD
> Even though this is in bluez, it looks like it is probably inlined into
> pulseaudio as the file has the same name in pulseaudio.
>
> I tried making the same change in the pulseaudio file and make finished.
> (I didn't do a complete change to allow fedpkg local to work.)
>
> So it looks like checking on the status of the bluez update and once that's
> in place rebuilding pulseaudio.
>
> I am not sure what will happen if you make the change locally in pulseaudio
> and not have the bluez change in place. However, that might be the lesser
> of two evils if the current problem is bad enough.

I'm not sure, reading that, if the fix is on it's way to pulseaudio or
not.  Which makes me hesitant to commit a patch, though I would be
happy to if needed.

-J

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