pulseaudio, howto make it work?
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Aug 24 10:36:51 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 20:22 -0700, Russell Miller wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > I do detect a pattern though...it's the same one that had you giving up
> > on NFS and using samba for filesharing because you couldn't make NFS
> > work.
> >
> > I would like to state for the record that like Rex, I have many, many
> > systems running with pulseaudio and no problems.
> >
> I respectfully do not like this attitude. I have been a systems
> administrator for 12 years, and I have used Fedora and RedHat through a
> large fraction of them (I remember RedHat 4 - not EL 4, just 4). In
> fact, I remember kernel 0.99.
>
> And PulseAudio didn't work for me.
>
> I dove in and fixed it, submitting a bug to the Fedora gods about what
> didn't work for me. It was closed as NOTABUG. Something I find
> inscrutable as, it was, indeed a bug. It was a bug because I installed
> Fedora and something didn't work on first install. Not good enough for
> these guys, though, apparently it must be something I did wrong.
>
> Perhaps that was installing Fedora. Perhaps not. I haven't yet
> decided. Now that I have a better idea of what Fedora is about, Centos
> is looking much more appealing to me.
>
> Perhaps it was something Mr. Heskett could have easily figured out if
> he'd been more knowledgeable about it or spent more time on it. That
> point is well taken. However, having people such as you insisting that
> there is no problem with PulseAudio because you've had no problems with
> it rubs me the wrong way. Perhaps Mr. Heskett's system is too heavily
> customized. Mine was not. Yet I got the exact same response, "Oh, it's
> your problem, you must have screwed up somewhere".
>
> If no one's going to take people seriously when they say they are having
> problems with PulseAudio, and people are just going to force PulseAudio
> down peoples' throats when it's not working while insisting the problems
> are all in the head of the user, well, there's really nothing more to be
> said.
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bugzilla # ?
I just searched bugzilla for all reports for your e-mail address and
couldn't find any.
Craig
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