[ale] Fedorai and Flash

[Andy Whitten]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Pete Hardie wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 23:15, Michael B. Trausch<mbt at zest.trausch.us> wrote:
>>     
>>> Oooh, skipping issues?
>>>
>>> I've got those, too, with the PA in Karmic.
>>>       
>> I have noticed that PA starts to take up a lot of CPU when this happens.
>> It's been hard to find anything truly useful - there appear to have
>> been similar issues
>> since FC5 in all 3 programs.
>>     
>
> Yeah... I'm _really_ growing tired of PulseAudio and its many, many 
> issues.  For the last several releases of Ubuntu which have incorporated 
> it, I have had to fuck ENDLESSLY with my sound configuration to get it to 
> work with my sound card and surround-sound speakers.  I got so frustrated 
> at one point that I pulled out an old XP disc that I have in a box of 
> software I haven't touched in years and put it on my system just to see if 
> sound would work out of the box and correctly under it.
>
> As it turned out, the best I could get Windows to do with my setup was 
> output stereo sound, even after playing the driver song-and-dance and 
> setting all of the settings to analog 5.1 surround.  I'm guessing that 
> there is something that must just be damned difficult for everything to 
> work right, but even with just plain stereo sound, there are so many 
> issues that I begin to wonder if PulseAudio is really worth anything.
>
> I only know that at some point, the software will have been worked on long 
> enough that it *has* to start working.  Honestly, though, I hope that it's 
> sooner rather than later.  I don't know why distributions have included it 
> yet, seeing as it doesn't seem anywhere _close_ to production ready.  I 
> currently can't play games or music on my system because of massive 
> issues pertaining to sound skips---and every time the sound skips, it 
> reverts from the 5.1 setting to stereo (though it doesn't seem to think 
> so, and I have to toggle back to stereo before switching back to 5.1 to 
> get all my speakers working again, which really isn't worth it, since it 
> only works until the next skip---often less than a half second of 
> subwoofery goodness...).
>
>  	--- Mike
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The really strange thing is that with Fedora 10, it just worked! What's 
the deal with Fedora 11? No Flash on a desktop is a show stopper. I have 
returned to Ubuntu 9.04. So far so good!

Regards,

Andy