pulseaudio, howto make it work?

[Craig White]

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