Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:26 -0500
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:

>   An answer from a different Walter <G>...
>
> > I also don't use pulse - plain ALSA is good enough for me - but
> > looking over the design goals for pulseaudio I see a decent attempt
> > to deal with audio properly for the future. These days we have
> > computers and devices that can interact with many other things in
> > weird and wonderful ways and software needs to deal with that.
>
> [...deletia...]
>
> > I just curious why you think that it's not useful to the ordinary
> > user in a generic wide way.
>
>   I'll throw the question back to you.

How about you go first?

I'm not opening up a debate and preparing an argument, I really want to
know what you think about this matter.

Yeah, I know, this is a highly unusual thing for Alan to put out there
and I've never done it this way before :-)

But it's legit, I don't have a dog in this fight and would really like
to know what you think




> What specific benefits do you
> see?  Not just generalities, but real life benfits, please.  Sound
> daemons in general seem to be solutions in search of a problem.  And
> if they couldn't find any problems to solve, they'd make up some new
> ones of their own.  I remember the first I heard of pulseaudio was
> all the weeping and moaning of people on this forum and the GTALUG
> (Toronto area linux mailing list) trying to get sound working again
> after installing pulseaudio.
>
>   Remember arts and esd?  They went the way of HAL.  Nuff said.  The
> thing to remember is that humans cannot multitask audio very well.
> Try listening to 2 radio stations at once, and see what I mean.
>



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Alan McKinnnon
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