Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Adrian Fita: > On 18/07/12 02:57, Brad Alexander wrote: > > [...] > > > Now, I did a little research a couple of weeks ago, and found on the > > Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/) that they recommend > > installing several extra pulse-related packages. Is it worth it? Will > > it fix my problems? Or is it not worth the effort and should I just > > nuke pulse from orbit? (It's the only way to be sure...) > > > > Opinions and experiences requested and welcome. > > I quite like PulseAudio. I haven't had issues with it for about 2-3 > years now. I guess I was lucky and it depends on the machine and the > audio chip. > > A couple a days ago I read a blog post about things to do when having > issues with audio [1]. I suggest you read those too, maybe it will give > you some ideas and maybe fixes to your problems. > > [1] > http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/2012/07/13/top-five-wrong > -ways-to-fix-your-audio/
| 2. Don’t purge PulseAudio | First, PulseAudio itself isn’t perfect, some of the bindings to | PulseAudio aren’t perfect, and some of the drivers are not perfect in | the way PulseAudio wants to use it either. So there might be valid | reasons to temporarily move it out of your way, even if it would be | better to actually fix the problem and submit a bug fix patch (if you’re | capable of doing so). | But don’t try uninstalling the PulseAudio package, as it has far too | many dependencies. Following lots of further instructions. And how do I tell this to my dad? Good, that I do not have too, cause I setup the system for me so that it works. I agree that Pulseaudio became a dependency too soon. Especially when I see threads like this with all the issues quite some users have. I am glad that it is not yet a dependency for KDE stuff and hope that it won´t become one until its a drop-in replacement for everyone that just used ALSA + dmix before. In the Linux kernel development community there is a golden rule: Never break userspace. I think this rule should be applied to userspace infrastructure daemons as well: Never break existing usage scenarios when you want to become a standard dependency on every distro and desktop. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201207201138.53165.mar...@lichtvoll.de