Re: [Ekiga-list] Issues

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

I agree with all of this...

Please note that the pulseaudio plugin is the default in the trunk version of Ekiga.

Le mercredi 30 décembre 2009 à 22:15 +1300, Derek Smithies a écrit :
> Hi,
>   Thanks for the answer, but it leaves me uncertain.
>
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Julien Puydt wrote:
>
> > David Bowman a écrit :
> >> The problem is that in the middle of calls to my partner he stops being 
> >> able to hear me.
>
> > Pulseaudio.
>
> If the cause of an audio problem is likely to be pulseaudio, what is the 
> user to do?
>
> Pulse audio is standard on all the major linux distros.
> Doing a complete removal of pulseaudio from my ubuntu 9.10 box 
> will cause the entire ubuntu-desktop to be removed, breaking 
> quite a few apps.
>
> So - what are we asking users to do?
>   remove pulseaudio ?
>      surely not.
>
>   write a new set of entries to their asound.conf?
>      a task only for the knowledgeable.
>
>   switch to debian (or gentoo or.. ) and use alsa, not pulseaudio?
>      some linux users are experienced enough to achieve this.
>
>
> There is a pulseaudio plugin in the ptlib SVN repository. Has the latest 
> version of this been tested?
>
> ================================================================
>
> If pulseaudio is faulty - then we should be passing developer feedback to 
> the pulse community, and they fix it.
>
> if the pulseaudio plugin in the ptlib SVN repository is faulty - then we 
> fix it. So far, the reported bugs in that plugin have been fixed.
>
> We cannot tell people to use alsa. We have to make pulseaudio work with 
> Ekiga.
>
> =============================================
>
> Every now and then I read that someone says,
>   "linux is ready for the desktop".
> Fools.
>    the setup of sound on linux is so hard and convoluted that linux is not 
> ready for the desktop.
>
> If you think that sound on linux is ok, try the following test.
> Plug a usb headset into your computer.
> start watching a youtube video, or flash animation.
> change a gui control to send sound to your headset.
>
> To achieve the above, if you had to write extra lines to your asound.conf 
> file, or modify the order of sound modules on your box with module 
> parameters, well, you showed that linux sound is hard&complicated, and not 
> ready for the newbie.
>
> Derek.
>
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