On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:24:07 +0100 Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Am Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:05:25 +0000 schrieb Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org>:
PA is for 'consumer' use, its scope ends at ITU 5.1 or so. It doesn't support any serious multichannel card (like the the comlete RME series, up to 64+64 channels). Users of such cards don't need or want PA, so it's really not a problem at all.
That's principally what I said. The problem is that several distros and DEs like Gnome depend on PulseAudio as far as I know. This is what I'm concerned about. Arch Linux and Xfce, what I'm using, fortunately don't depend on it.
If PulseAudio was generally only optional and if its developers wouldn't try to declare it as a standard, I just wouldn't care.
If you use such cards you probably have Jack running, and if you really want PA you can configure it as a Jack client.
I'm using an M-Audio Audiophile 24/96, so one of the cheapest semi-professional audio cards of this kind. And I admit I primarily use it for listening to music, watching videos etc. because of its sound quality.
But you're right I don't want and need PulseAudio.
Heiko
Please please please not again!!! PA is a great consumer thing, and that's exactly what we need. Because noone cares about "pro" audio solutions which are a nightmare to configure. PA goes far beyond you KDE/gnome to embedded systems with android and webos. Having different volume controls for different ergimes is very handy there. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D