| Re: [News] Red Hat Developer's Update on PulseAudio, Fedora Live CDs Interview On 2008-04-10, Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Ignoramus9437 <ignoramus9437@NOSPAM.9437.invalid> writes:
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>> On 2008-04-10, Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> "Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@unixhome.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> "Moshe Goldfarb" <brick.n.straw******.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:1d90ogevhssac.1unp33rqyvymt$.dlg@40tude.net...
>>>>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:17:25 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What's Cooking in PulseAudio's glitch-free Branch
>>>>>
>>>>> Another day.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another Linux sound system.
>>>>>
>>>>> Talk about total confusion.
>>>>>
>>>>> How many different sound systems are we up to now?
>>>>> Like ten?
>>>>
>>>> Linux operates on the survival of the fittest. Unlike Windows products,
>>>> they compete and it isn't a monopoly.
>>>
>>> You could not be more wrong. Because there is no commercial need for
>>> most Linux stuff, even the crap stay there. I hate to tell you but most
>>> SW used on Windows is not from MS. It is from competing commercial
>>> companies.
>>>
>>> I mean, really, could you be more clueless?
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> You Linux guys can't even get ALSA working properly, and easily, yet you
>>>>> keep churning out one sound system after another.
>>>>
>>>> Further ahead than Vista.
>>>
>>> Are you joking? Linux sound architecture is a joke at the moment.
>>>
>>> Here's the Pulseaudio "how to make it work" wiki:
>>>
>>> [url]http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup[/url]
>>>
>>> And thats the easy bit. There are many distro specific hacks and the
>>> need to compile from CVS in many cases.[/color]
>>
>> I did absolutely nothing with my sound setup, in either Hardy or
>> Gutsy, it all just worked. My use of sound is mostly watching movies
>> or listening to music.
>>
>> i[/color]
>
> Yes, well, good for you.
>
> Open up a second x screen on your TV. Play a totem movie
> there. Now test your system sounds and try to play youtube in flash or
> a bbc player item in iceweasel. Also try something like gnubiff to alert
> you with audio of a new email and/or listen to amarok or a radio
> stream. Does it all work together?[/color]
I will try tonight, will let you know.
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