how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

Linus Walleij triad at df.lth.se
Thu Dec 13 21:48:44 UTC 2007


On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Will Woods wrote:

> 3) When GNOME/KDE/etc start up, they start pulseaudio.
> - Actually, GNOME starts ESD, but /usr/bin/esd -> esdcompat
> - esdcompat is provided by pulseaudio-esound-compat

Actually, I had an old /home so the old GNOME config was OF COURSE not set 
to start ESD, since it was krap.

So I've been launching pulseaudio manually in a cmdline window until 
today, when I learnt that ESD is PA. :-)

Prhaps we could make this a bit more obvious...

Linus




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