Pulseaudio on Maverick 10.10

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 07:07:58 BST 2010


On Thursday, October 14, 2010 01:18:53 am Craig Brashear wrote:
>  Hi All,
> 
>  I had a not so pleasant experience with pulseaudio in the new distro.
>  #1 There is a blacklist in the /lib directory that blacklists out my
> driver module (hda intel) NoALSA.conf. 

snd_hda_intel is the sound modules used by the vast majority of hardware these 
days, including all of my laptops (which work fine with Pulse).  Or are you 
saying it blacklisted your specific SSID?

>  IMHO the switch to pulseaudio in KDE (KUbuntu) is not quite "ready for
> prime time" yet. Most users will get irritated to say the least if their
> sound card is not working properly.

Which is why the switch was done the release after an LTS.  This is when 
experiments happen.  It gives us 3 whole release cycles to get it thoroughly 
working before the next LTS.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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