'Twas brillig, and Patrick Shirkey at 09/08/09 15:43 did gyre and gimble:
I don't know how you managed to get in such a position but I mess
around with 64 and 32 bit combos all the time and it's really not any
hassle with pulse.
Well in this case I have to disagree. However not because I don't think
it's not possible but because I definitely found it to be a hassle
before upgrading because the default Fedora 11 didn't install the 32 bit
libs and since upgrading because I haven't yet built the 32 bit version.
Yeah I guess a default install will probably not install 32 bit libs. I
doubt that is any different in other distros either. We did have
specific deps added for our flash package (typically run as a 32 bit
processes - it's only recently gone native as you know).
As you are the Mandrake packager your knowledge of the build process is
definitely more advanced than mine. However I have been working with
Linux Audio for 10 years so I'm not exactly a novice.
This is true, but it's more about knowing how 64 and 32 bit systems work
together. Even before pulse there needed to be a 32 bit version of
libasound for things to work. Now we need a 32 bit libpulse (and a 32
bit alsa->pulse plugin) so things aren't so very different than they
used to be in all honesty. I don't think anything major went wrong in
your case, just some bizarre hiccups that were compounded to become
rather confusing overall. I suspect most users would not have been so
unlucky (otherwise we'd see far more questions on this list :))
I hazard a guess
that this is one thing that would cause people a lot of difficulty and
contribute to the general bad press that pulseaudio recieves online and
in turn Linux Audio on the desktop.
I think the poor rollout/integration by some distros which shall remain
nameless is the main reason for this.
The 64/32 bit issue could certainly have played some part here. If 32 X
applications can run flawlessly, then there is no excuse if the sound
does not "just work" too.
Col
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