PulseAudio

[Bastien Nocera]

Heya,

After installing something resembling a Rawhide system and filing plenty
of bugs in the course of action, I set myself onto testing PulseAudio
today. I was quite scared by the amounts of configuration (some of it
non-trivial) and changes to applications to get PulseAudio working as
the main sound system (ie. with all applications talking to ALSA-libs
talking to PulseAudio, talking to the ALSA backend).

I wanted to have an esound replacement first, so that beeps and warnings
could go through PulseAudio, and not hinder the other applications using
ALSA.

I encountered a bunch of dependency problems:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230206

Then a warning (which I don't think is critical to testing):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230209

And finally, the big problem, an assert trying to play back some sound:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230211

I think this is still the best course of action for F7, given some work
to 1) make PulseAudio work (as it doesn't right now for the above), 2)
some integration with the GNOME sound properties so it spits out the
sound events on the right device.

Cheers