Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

[Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk gmail com>]

2009/1/19 Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>:
> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 12:32 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
>> What really PA needs is some kind of "great switch" for
>> advanced/troubled users. I admit I wasn't found about PA in the past,
>> but now it works. Sure it has quirks but it is really nice feature to
>> "Free Desktop".
>
> There are still cases where PA crashes (I don't have bugreports at hand)
> and leaves the user without sound, which is a no-no for me.

So if user got such frequent crashes, we suggest him to switch to
vanilla ALSA (or OSS in Sun). He uses mentioned GUI aka "great switch"
to turn off PA and go ALSA way, in final having working sound. If
Gstreamer is set to be configured automatically, it will fall back to
alsasink (at least mine Hardy does), so it is just matter of proper
pulseaudio process management and having sensible documentation.

Peter.