PulseAudio info needed

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Fulko Hew wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com 
> <mailto:scottro at nyc.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:47:57AM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>     > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Anne Wilson
>     <cannewilson at googlemail.com <mailto:cannewilson at googlemail.com>>
>     wrote:
>     > >
>     > > I get quite angry at the number of times I see replies like
>     'disable
>     > > pulseaudio and you'll have no more problems' - but I have not
>     counter-
>     > > arguments.
>     > >
>     >
>     > I suggest you base at least some of the material on Lennart
>     Poettering blog
>     > http://0pointer.de/blog
>     >
>     > and in particular the "PulseAudio FUD" post here:
>     > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/jeffrey-stedfast.html
>
>     That's not a counter argument, it seems to agree.  Its developer says
>     that it's not ready for prime time, though he phrases it differently.
>
>     Interesting that he feels Fedora, where sound doesn't Just Work unless
>     you use Gnome, did a good job of implementing it, whereas Ubuntu,
>     where
>     sound works without any effort in console, fluxbox, and the like,
>     did a
>     bad job.
>
>
> OK, I've read his FUD rebuttal, I can understand why sound doesn't
> just work, but I've got one of those laptops where it doesn't work.
> Personally, I won't go near Gnome (it just doesn't work the way _I_
> think, and neither of us is wrong).
>
> I'd like to switch from F8 to F10, but there are a number of pretty
> simple items on my checklist, and one is sound:
> a) The KDE launch and shutdown sounds should not stutter.
>    (I usually have them turned off anyway, but it is indicative of a 
> 'problem')
> b) I need 'audacity'
> c) I'd like to have xine and mplayer (sometimes one doesn't like my DVDs
>    and the other does)
> d) playing MP3s (from conference proceedings) (I like xmms)  Rarely do
>    I play albums, so all these players that focus on sucking music
>    across the net and showing album covers and building playlists
>    are lost on me; just play the file I've got is enough.
> e) the 'CD control' button on the front of my Dell Inspiron 6400
>    should work (at least as well as they did on F8, otherwise its a
>    regression).
>
> So while testing Rawhide and now F10 release, step a) (still) doesn't 
> work.
> So... If a) doesn't work, then I typically stop there and wait till it
> does, even if some of the _other_ stuff might work.
>
> Either a) I'm doing something wrong (because it doesn't work 'out of 
> the box'
> on my machine or b) What do I file Bugzilla's against?
>
> Thanks for listening,
> Fulko
>
For the record usually the bugs are ALSA related not PA
Take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2008-10-09

JBG
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