[split thread] Pulseaudio... why?

[Timothy Hildred]

i had to apt-get purge pulseaudio to get skype working decently on my eeepc
running ubuntu 9.04. 9.10 seemed to have implement it better

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> If you try to do anything serious with audio (editors, music
> composition etc.) you too will have problems with PulseAudio. It's a
> completely unnecessary additional layer of abstraction.
>
> - FZ
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 21:21, CLIFFORD ILKAY
> <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On 06/17/2010 09:18 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:13:42PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote
> >>
> >>> I had no end of problems with PulseAudio with that until I disabled
> >>> on-board card and plugged in an ancient SoundBlaster.
> >>
> >>
> >> <mode=slashdot>
> >>>
> >>> I had no end of problems with PulseAudio...
> >>
> >>   There, fixed it for ya
> >> </mode>
> >>
> >>   Let's just say that pulseaudio has recieved "plenty of mention" on the
> >> Gentoo mailing list, and I have no intention of using it.  It's another
> >> solution in search of a problem.  And if it can't find problems, it'll
> >> create them.
> >
> > I haven't had a problem with PulseAudio since I switched to a different
> > sound card but I use Fedora, not Gentoo.
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