On Tuesday 03 November 2009 10:23:59 pm Clayton wrote:
I did the whole Ubuntu/Kubuntu thing on base metal installs, not VMware or VBox. Installation was fine... very slick.. it wasn't until after the install that Ubuntu started to show it's warts. Skype setup for example... a nightmare if you want to use anything other than your default device due to the whole Pulse Audio thing.
OMG the pulse audio thing! I mean first there was OSS, then ALSA - and I understand this transition and thought that ALSA was doing OK. But then the pulse audio thing! UGH! What a pain.... and why?!?! I don't get the point of having yet another layer of audio code/protocols. Was/is it a network/streaming issue? I don't know frankly. And not to be to critical about 11.1 - but I usually have to issue a "rcalsasound" restart or reload at least once a session because it just stutters and stalls terribly! It still does so (though not as severly) after disabling the pulse/ALSA settings - no pulse audio for me (which ironically worked quite well in Mandrivea 2009.0 and 2k.1 versions, go figure). The other issue that I missed in the other distro's was the Packman repos. Though Gkrellm setup in Mandriva was more complete (complete rpm of the plugins and skins, which I grabbed and installed on 11.1). Nice to hear that the setup went better this time, although the grub thing still bothers me. I hate having to go back and forth between SuSE and XP (for the games) after an kludgy GRUB install. Cheers, Curtis. -- BEWARE! Spammers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Those throw objects at the alligators will be asked to retrieve them! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org