On 11/27/2008 02:53 PM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
The rewritten PulseAudio sound server utilizes new features from the low-lovel audio drivers, and currently it reveales that there is problems with some kernel / alsa drivers. PulseAudio might have trigged the problems, but now it is just the messenger about problems that must be fixed elsewhere.
I think the problem here is that most Distros/Users still use regular ALSA output which now seems to use a different codepath than what PulseAudio uses. As a result the bugs are hard to file against ALSA and get lower priority because the driver technically works for most users. If the ALSA developers could unify this codepath so that the "traditional" way of accessing the driver is basically a layer using the new functionality that codepath would probably receive more attention.
Regards, Dennis