John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes: > On 02/15/2014 08:59 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'll agree with that. Audio really should just work unless the >> hardware configuration is particularly strange. > So, if your computer has several sounds cards - which is the case when > you have both a sound card and HDMI audio - how is PulseAudio supposed > to know which sound card to use? This is in no way different to plain > ALSA. I can think of several ways to handle that. I don't know how many of them PulseAudio already implements. For example, if it's a common problem to have the sound going through HDMI audio when people have a sound card, maybe the default in that case should be to use the sound card rather than HDMI. Or (and I don't know if that capability is present) maybe it should default to sending the sound to all cards. All I'm saying, and all I think Steve is saying, is that audio not working out of the box is some kind of bug. That's fine -- software has bugs. We all know that. It might be an important bug, it might be a normal bug, it might be a wishlist bug, or it might be a wontfix bug, but something the user reasonably expected to work didn't work, so that's a bug. That doesn't mean ALSA didn't also have bugs. Of course it did. :) > FWIW, sound works in 99% of the cases right after a fresh install. > Problems like the one described by Christian usually occur on systems > which have been undergone several configuration changes and upgrades, > i.e. old systems. Which would be a... wait for it... bug in our upgrade handling. :) But again, I have no idea the severity. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8738jkxhj0....@windlord.stanford.edu
