On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:39:29PM EST, David Henningsson wrote: > On 05/01/2013 02:30 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote: > >Hey folks, > >So I am in the middle of packaging alsa 1.0.27 for saucy and putting it in > >the alsa-testing PPA to get some testing, and I am wondering whether we all > >think we should run the new alsactl daemon mode that helps with hotplugged > >hardware when its connected/disconnected. I am of a mind to run it as > >upstream are less likely to support a config where its not used, but I'd be > >interested in other people's opinions. It does help us cover the small > >number of use cases where pulse is not being used. > > > >I'm going to go ahead and write an upstart job for it and enable it by > >default in the PPA for testing, but we can always revert to what we have now. > > > >Thoughts welcome. > > > >Luke > > Good question. For systems with PulseAudio there could still be > alsamixer controls you want to save, but that PulseAudio does not > save for you. > > However, in the trade-off between keeping our system footprint low > and feature completion; this daemon makes no difference for the vast > majority of our users. Hence I'd lean towards writing an upstart job > for it but disabling it by default.
Ok cool. I've written a job for it, and things appear to work, but I'll turn it off in the PPA packages, which will eventually go into saucy after sufficient testing. Luke _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev Post to : ubuntu-audio-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
