Re: karmic problem is somewhat fixed

[Bill Cox]

Hi, Labrador.

I've enjoyed reading your posts.  Anyway, as an old (I'm 45) software
developer myself, I wish anything I shipped where half as stable as
Ubuntu.  It's damed hard to build the QA suite, and testing's a bitch.
 I'm sure the developer in charge of this decision thought:

A) Switching to PulseAudio wouldn't break important functionality like Orca
B) Any bugs that cause problems could be quickly handled.

Unfortunately, we developers are often wrong, as in this case.  Luke
has already posted that it's high priority for him to track down the
performance problems between speech-dispatcher and PulseAudio.  At
this point, we should just hope that Luke succeeds and that in the
future Canonical tests Orca performance before making major sound
system changes.

Anyway, this is hardly the only problem in Karmic, and hardly the only
remaining issue in Linux.  My wife came to me today, because she
couldn't figure out how to install Adobe Air on Ubuntu.  She had
downloaded some installer ending in '.bin', and was double-clicking
it, saying, "It wont start!  It wont start!"  Linux is not yet for the
masses, though I hope Ubuntu eventually gets there.  In the meantime,
it's the most awesome system for programmers and hackers ever
conceived, and has it's use in business, too.

Bill

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Re: karmic problem is somewhat fixed

[Labrador]

Hi,

I'm asking myself what to do and how to do so that that big ch... of Pulse
should be removed and replaced again by ALSA in future distros ?
why did they changed something who worked nicely by something who make from
the Linux system soething unusable regarding sound/audio ?
Can they imagine what this should make as impression by ex Windows users ?

On Debian it's still ALSA in the stable one and that is working very nicely,
also the author of Vinux (now also Debian based) had to do the same,
removing Pulse and installing ALSA;
so let's remove the ch... definitely, isn't it ?
what to do, where to post and who's responsible for Pulse ?
Who decided that it was good enough to be imposed while it's so bad ?

Labrador 


On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:28:42AM -0600, mike wrote:
> Hi, removing pulse audio did seem to make things a little better. I ran 
> spd-conf and set up a new config. All at the moment works except for two 
> things. 1, no volume control.
> 2, in movie player Orca crashes if I search for something on u tube and try 
> to play it. But this has been a problem for some time.
> Mike.
> 
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karmic problem is somewhat fixed

[mike]

Hi, removing pulse audio did seem to make things a little better. I ran 
spd-conf and set up a new config. All at the moment works except for two 
things. 1, no volume control.
2, in movie player Orca crashes if I search for something on u tube and try to 
play it. But this has been a problem for some time.
Mike.

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