<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Peter Lemenkov <<a href="mailto:lemenkov@gmail.com">lemenkov@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2008/11/27 Bryn M. Reeves <<a href="mailto:bmr@redhat.com">bmr@redhat.com</a>>: <div class="Ih2E3d">> Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> There is a lot of FUD and general mistrust of PA. It seems to me that it >> would help a great deal if someone would write a short statement about what >> PA is and how it should work. If there is known readable references, they >> would help too, as would noting any known work-arounds for problem. >> >> It would be a great help to those of us who try to give user support. I'd >> even put it on my own web space and direct folk to it, if that would help. > > There's a lot of good information on the PulseAudio project pages > themselves: > > <a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio</a> > <a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FirstSteps" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FirstSteps</a> > <a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup</a> > <a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FAQ</a> > > Maybe someone would be interested in summarising some of this and adding > Fedora-specifics on the Fedora wiki to make it a bit less intimidating for > novice users? </div>My advice to all novices is to remove pulseaudio (as yet, it's still possible to remove almost completely this useless and buggy component). I wonder how it was decided (and whom) to push in as a default soundsystem? Most amazing feature of F-10 is "glitch-free sound with PulseAudio". Just think about - it's 2008 (almost 2009), and Fedora finally promises that its default soundserver would sometimes works. The most obscure part of PulseAudio story (except numerous "help! pulseaudio doesn't work for me" posts in various russian linux forums) is how it was chosen among other stable and mature alternatives. I really don't understant it. We got some soundservers already - namely, JACK, NAS, MAS (which was developed under Freedesktop umbrella) and even ALSA native interface, but someone choose solution which (even after long period of development) still not ready for daily work and does not provide any significant benefit to user even in long-term perspective. </blockquote><div> I disagree. I am running Fedora 10 installed on a 8GB USB stick, and my two sound cards were detected and can be controlled via pulse audio. Speakers connected to the onboard soundcard and headphones to an additional PCI card. Literally, zero work. mplayer, vlc, mpg123, gnormalize, everything working. I can switch the sound from one card to the other on the fly. I must confess I know very little about alsa, but this time I did not have to do anything at all. modprobe.conf is empty and no .asoundrc In fact, pulseaudio is one of the components that never gave any trouble. On the other hand, things like compiz are a nightmare to configure, but a lot of people seem to like it. Everything depends on the referencial ... </div></div>-- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ