Re: Pulseaudio

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 00:17 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le mardi 16 octobre 2007 �2:14 +0200, Lennart Poettering a �it :
> > > > Gustavo brought up the issue that PA "hogs" the sound device. Sure we
> > > > do. The idea is having everything go through PA, so that we can treat
> > > > everything the same. However, since there are some APIs that are
> > >
> > > It makes setting up PulseAudio a real pain though.
> > 
> > The idea is that your distribution does this for you. 
> 
> So, if I get it, one day the whole distribution is using ALSA, and the
> day after it should start using PA instead? How do you expect people to
> achieve such a miracle without a transition that is made impossible by
> PA locking the sound device?

It worked pretty well for us in Fedora from 7 to (yet unreleased) 8.
Besides, as Lennart already stated, recent PA actually release the sound
device if no-one is using it.

      David