Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>]

At Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:11:01 -0600,
Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> > Actually the PA problems can be categorized to two regions:
> >
> > 1. audio quality issues
> > 2. integration issues
> >
> > About 1, it comes more or less from "glitch-free" feature of PA
> > (ironically).  These are simply bugs to be fixed, not to hide.
> > It's unfortunate that this feature was introduced to 11.1 before
> > maturing.
>
> > The second issue includes the third-vendor softwares like skype, and 
> > the issues about mixer applications.  The mixer issues will (should)
> > be improved in future.  But the third-vendor issue isn't always easy
> > to fix.  But, we can expect that they are going to fix the codes if
> > they see the wide deployment and the massive problem reports...
>
> I have no idea about Adobe. Skype is actively working on it, it seems.
> They have an experimental PA support which should be part of the next
> release, but what they said on their website is that it has stability
> problems (strange!) ;-)

Yeah, I've heard such a rumor :)

> I would add some other stuff actually, if you didn't include them in the
> "mixer problems". Which are the crashes of the daemon that leave you
> without controls. On my side they are pretty frequent, and in theory a
> patch was already applied for that in 11.0.

Ah right, the stability of the program itself...
A part of the problem is/was that PA uses assert() excessively.  So,
its design isn't die-hard but rather "react quickly and aggressively
against failures".

But, this is the problem that usually you can fix easily if you have
some useful debug information such as backtrace.  So, in this regard,
proper bug reports will be really helpful rather than ranting.


Takashi
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