[ANNOUNCE] New Mixer Handling in PA 0.9.16/F12

Dr. Diesel dr.diesel at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 17:25:24 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > > Removing PA is far too often jumped on as the 'obvious' fix for
> > > resolving any kind of audio problem whatsoever. Even if it had nothing
> > > to do with PA in the first place.
> >
> > And?  Random helpful person quickly becomes ignored person, if the
> > advice fails to work.
> >
> > Problem is...  removing or disabling PA often -does- solve a problem.
>
> There's two problems. One, it's often not the _right_ fix - there are
> cases where PA's interaction with ALSA reveals bugs in ALSA that
> otherwise stay hidden. So disabling PA 'fixes the bug', but in reality
> is just sweeping it under the carpet.
>
> Two, even when the bug is in PA, if everyone just goes around disabling
> PA, how are they going to get fixed? Telepathy?
>


How long do we expect people to tolerate these bugs before they move on?


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