Experience and observations of F11a/rawhide so far

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 12:10 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> For the PulseAudio guys this is complicated by the fact that the
> potential set of available channels from ALSA is hideously complicated,
> and it's not at all easy to know which ones are useful to expose to the
> user for any given card. And the PA guys really, really don't just want
> to expose the whole bundle of channels for each card through the PA
> configuration interface somehow, because making people figure out which
> of 16 channels they need to poke to make their sound do what they want
> it to is horrible.

Only 16 Channels!!! You're lucky:

http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/why-alsa-sucks.png