PulseAudio is now enabled by default on new Fedora installs

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Thu Aug 16 20:49:49 UTC 2007


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Lennart Poettering wrote:
> ...
>> layers. Please do *not* file any bugs regarding adobe flash. We know
>> it doesn't work on PA. Flash is completely broken when it comes to
>> audio it we can neither support it through our ESD compat nor through
>> our ALSA compat. Due to the closed source nature of Flash we cannot go
>> and fix their code. I will eventually add some workarounds for
>> this. But it's low priority on my list, given the closed source nature
>> of Flash. Oh, and Flash is evil anyway. ;-)
> ...
>
> Does that mean users installing F8 will not be able to use YouTube, etc.? 
> That sounds like a big showstopper for a lot of people out there...

  IIRC, Flash sound ought to work through alsa-oss.  Were it not broken by 
the glibc open() change. :-)

      Jima




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