polypaudio -> esound

[Brian Puccio]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:01 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Due to functionality and supportability issues, Hoary is reverting back to
> esound from polypaudio.  An automated transition mechanism has not yet been
> established, so meanwhile, if you have polypaudio installed, we recommend
> that you install the 'esound' package (which will remove polypaudio and
> replace it with esound).

While I do realize that this is a good decision and quite logical given
the influx of users who had problems when polyaudio was introduced, I
can't help but wonder, was I the only person who found polyaudio to be
an improvement?

I was a loyal warty user, using a bunch of packages from the universe,
but didn't bother changing anything relating to sound.  I was able to
hear all sounds (including flash in firefox) and here multiple sounds at
once.  A while ago, I made the jump to Hoary, knowing full well things
may break.  Sound was one of them.  I got no sound at all, unless I used
xine and set the output to be ESD in the xine config (gstreamer, flash,
etc had no audio).  I meant to figure out why, but a few weeks later,
polyaudio popped up and since then the sound has been fine, just as
before.

While I realize I have the option to keep polyaudio, and I probably
will, since it works, however I was curious if any one else experienced
this.  FWIW I have an IBM Thinkpad R51 and I'm using the onboard audio
and speakers.

Thanks!

(Again, I'm not questioning the decision being made, I do realize that
polyaudio introduced more then it's fair share of bugs)
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