Notable Changes to Jaunty's PulseAudio

[Cody A.W. Somerville]

Hello,

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Luke Yelavich <themuso at ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> From: Dan Chen <crimsunkg at yahoo.com>
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Notable Changes to Jaunty's PulseAudio
> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:36:13 -0500
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> Hi all,
>
> This morning's upload of PulseAudio to jaunty makes two notable changes for
> the desktop user:
>
> Firstly, autospawn is now enabled, which means that if the daemon is not
> running when the first client attempts to connect, it will be executed
> automatically. This step tests a workaround for the daemon ABENDing while we
> further debug the root cause. The impact of this change is that PulseAudio
> users who have desktop environments other than GNOME running may experience
> some nondeterministic behaviour for the default capture and playback devices
> when the daemon initially autospawns. Please report any such issues using
> the Launchpad bug tracker.


I woke up this morning hoping to be able to listen to some ABBA.
Unfortunately, sound no longer works in my Xubuntu. :(

Furthermore, I was hoping to avoid shipping/enabling pulseaudio with
Xubuntu. Does this now mean that pulseaudio is required?


>
>
> Secondly, we have globally disabled glitch-free to work around a number of
> driver bugs that do not seem addressable within the jaunty development span.
> This change reverts PulseAudio behaviour to rely on the driver's
> interrupt-based buffering semantics, which appear to be more stable for a
> significant number of jaunty testers. If you would like to reenable
> glitch-free, edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and change:
>
> load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0
> to:
> load-module module-hal-detect
>
> Again, please report regressions from the existing jaunty PulseAudio
> package using the Launchpad bug tracker.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
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Cheers,

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