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Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio



On 05/09/12 09:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 09:41 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
On 04/09/12 21:43, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Yes, pulseaudio needs ALSA. Note that pulseaudio is bad programmed
That's certainly an opinion, and perhaps a commonly-repeated one, but
an opinion non-the-less.

+1 - I'm with Jon on this one.
That's not an opinion. 1. The way how volumes are adjusted is insane, I
already explained it in another thread. 2. Pulseaudio does expect
information from ALSA drivers, they often can't give, so ALSA drivers
that are working without pulseaudio, won't work with pulseaudio. Seems
to be related to "1.". 3. Multi-Channel IO cards needed for DAWs can't
be used. So at least making PA a hard dependency for a DE is bad. Here
we call this "facts", not an opinion.
I would still call those opinions related to possibly missing features or about certain features present, it still doesn't mean it is badly programmed.

In my humble opinion you should probably at least file relevant bug reports or feature requests so as to act in a proactive manner, instead of just stating that something is bad[ly] programmed.

Lorenzo.


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