On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@tin.it> wrote:
HOWEVER: disabling it should be the last option. It shouldn't be taken as the primary option as the subject says.
Well, we all agree on this (I hope). At least on my side, I'm not trying to do it for a question of principle.
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!) ;-)
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.
Regards, A.
It seems like sound in general is a mess with linux. I know my personal experience with it over the last 18 months has been poor. I actually was pretty happy with it for11.1 out of the box, but for me with the KDE 4.2 factory and the most recent you updates, if has been highly unstable. I had pulse audio enabled until a few days ago when it just got to be too much of a hassle. The trouble seems to be the variety of hardware / software people are using plus the lack of feedback to the factory team to make decisions with. It seems like what is needed is way to automatically gather hardware / software info, plus ask the user about their experience with sound. Can smolt be leveraged to do something like that? Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org