[ANNOUNCE] New Mixer Handling in PA 0.9.16/F12

[Jeff Garzik]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 08:51 -0500, Dr. Diesel wrote:
> 
>> This is supported by the zillions of forum messages asking how to fix
>> or remove pulseaudio.  Not to mention the billion post thread here on
>> devel. 
> 
> In my experience, this is a more common pattern:
> 
> $POOR_NEWBIE: I have a problem with audio.
> $RANDOM_'HELPFUL'_PERSON: Oh, you need to remove PulseAudio!
> 
> Removing PA is far too often jumped on as the 'obvious' fix for
> resolving any kind of audio problem whatsoever. Even if it had nothing
> to do with PA in the first place.

And?  Random helpful person quickly becomes ignored person, if the 
advice fails to work.

Problem is...  removing or disabling PA often -does- solve a problem.

	Jeff