Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Fri, 16.01.09 17:49, Frederic Crozat (fcrozat mandriva com) wrote:

> No, it is not THAT simple.
> 
> We (Mandriva) are shipping PA and it works for most users, but there are
> users with problems (either ALSA related or PA related, Colin Guthrie is
> always making sure those issues are reported upstream to ALSA or PA) and
> they are forced to disable PA and we are not able (missing either
> knowledge or manpower) to "just fix" the issue and have to wait for the
> community to fix it. For those cases, it would be great to have a nice
> "fallback" so they don't have a degraded "user experience". 

Maybe the time spent on discussing this issue and on fixing a way to
support both systems with and without PA is better spent in fixing the
sound drivers.

BTW. TO bring some facts in the discussion, here's a small Wiki page I
set up listing the probelmatic drivers for now:

http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/BrokenSoundDrivers

Lennart

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