Pulseaudio breakage in F11

[Kevin Kofler]

Christoph Wickert wrote:
> PA offers an OSS comparability layer.

Uh no, it doesn't. Well, it does, in the form of the "padsp" wrapper through
which you have to run the application. But the OSS compatibility layer you
get by default is provided by ALSA, and it only handles exclusive access to
the hardware, no mixing. So you're taking away the hardware from
PulseAudio, which might explain why it quits working when you do that...

On the other hand, PulseAudio provides an ALSA plugin, so ALSA is what you
need to use for apps with no native PulseAudio support.

        Kevin Kofler