Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> A good way to needlessly complicate your audio setup especially if
> everything is working fine using the traditional ALSA approach.
> Pulseaudio also breaks voice and sometimes all sound support in Second
> Life despite claiming ESD compatibility.  Pulse is not without major
> show stopping drawbacks that make it unsuitable for desktop use, and
> there doesn't seem to be any serious effort on part of pulse partisans
> to fix the situation anytime soon.  Pulseaudio is unsuitable for the

Yes, I noticed that too with all the config files editing a user has to
go through to even attempt to see if it has started to work.

> desktop, and I hope it doesn't ever make it into the default desktop
> install until there's damn good reason for it to be there.

Man, you really dislike pa! :)

I guess I will leave it for now. Though FC9 has it and it seems to work
pretty impressively there.

Regards.


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