[ANNOUNCE] New Mixer Handling in PA 0.9.16/F12

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 29.07.09 20:20, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) wrote:

> 
> 
> Le mercredi 29 juillet 2009 à 17:49 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > > Problem is...  removing or disabling PA often -does- solve a problem.
> > 
> > Rather, it works around it. The problems in the kernel drivers are
> > usually still there...
> 
> Before PA a sound problem didn't freeze the GUI (effectively bricking
> the system for normal users). Now it can. In my case, a few months ago,
> it was doing so because a new PA version could not parse a manual config
> change advertised in Fedora's own "Glitch-free audio" feature page a
> release before.
> 
> Lennart stated that all this (PA being able to pull the GUI down, PA not
> being able to parse what was a correct config file a version before, PA
> rpm performing an unsafe upgrade) was NOTABUG.

Twisting my words....

Lennart

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