Suggestion for dapper: moving from Esd to Polypaudio

Hi!

crimsun at fungus.sh.nu [2005-10-15 12:41 -0700]:
> 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.

That's not completely true, polypaudio was last-minute fixed to work
on ppc. However, I don't consider polypaudio an option any more. It
has some major flaws as well, and upstream is totally dead.

> 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,

Just selecting "ALSA" should do the right thing, as it already uses
dmix.

For Dapper I thought about switching gstreamer to ALSA by default, and
instead collect bug reports about cards where dmix does not work.
Upstream is interested about these reports, and eventually ALSA should
just be fixed to work everywhere instead of using crude hacks like
sound daemons indefinitely.

Martin
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Martin Pitt        http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer   http://www.ubuntu.com
Debian Developer   http://www.debian.org
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