Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 22:26 +0200, Matteo Settenvini wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list, so sorry if I ask something already discussed. > > It has been a while since esound has received some attention - releases > are almost stalled. Looking at the GNOME wiki, it seems that Pulseaudio > is the stronger candidate between alternatives, and that it allows for > quite a lot of nifty things. > > I'm running pulseaudio since four or five months now on two of my > desktop systems, both x86 and PPC, and I must say that I'm really > satisfied by it. > It's quite stable and has very few compelling bugs for the normal user > (e.g. when using it as an esound replacement on a machine with more than > a logged in user it doesn't share the esd socket, or similar). > > It also seems to be actively developed, and is shipped by default with > Fedora 8. > > Can it be eligible for inclusion in GNOME 2.22?
I think you really need the maintainer to propose it. Having said that, PulseAudio has been proposed before (IIRC). If you check the archives, I'm sure there are a few threads about it. > is a sound server such as esd or pulseaudio still needed at all? As > far > as I understand, ALSA allows access from multiple applications. It > supports hardware mixing and provides dmix as a fallback on systems > where hardware mixing is not available. For the casual user, this > should > be sufficient. Or is it not? ALSA = Advanced *Linux* sound architecture. What about other platforms? Do they have something similar to ALSA (or has ALSA expanded to other platforms and if so, why has the acronym not changed)? Don _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list