Suggestion for dapper: moving from Esd to Polypaudio

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:46:43PM +0200, Till Varoquaux wrote:
> Esound[1] architecture is known to be flawed. I beleive now is a good
> time to move Ubuntu to a new sound server, namely Polypaudio[2] I will
> not list all of its problems here however I will the ones I see as
> major show stoppers:

Polypaudio was actually evaluated and tested for the Hoary release and
found to be lacking on the ppc architecture, so it was reverted to esd.
You can search the ubuntu-devel archives from February and March of
this year.

Breezy has a much more suitable default configuration, as it relies on
ALSA (dmixed) as the primary outlet and only falls back to esd for
GNOME apps. With a bit of tweaking[0], even esd can be bypassed for all
that wonderful ALSA yumminess.

[0]In System> Preferences> Multimedia Systems Selector> Default Audio
   Sink, change esdsink to Custom, and in the text entry box type:
   alsasink device=plug:dmix . Then is System> Preferences> Sound,
   uncheck the Enable Sound Server Startup checkbox.

Cheers,
-- 
Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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