[arch-general] Opinions on pulseaudio [WAS: PulseAudio in [testing]]

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 20:41 +0100, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
> Sander Jansen wrote:
> > 2010/11/29 "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger at free.fr>:
> >>        This bug is even worse for me: the only output that PA will
> >> recognize on my system is the HDMI output from my *video* card! I
> >> don't have any HDMI capable peripheral to even try to hear it! Alsa
> >> outputs to my true sound card without any problem...
> >>
> > 
> > You could perhaps file a bug with PA. Or find help on the PA mailinglist.
> > 
> 	I did (well actually, *I* didn't: I went to look and saw that
> someone else had already asked). The answer was: "Who is stupid
> enough to have more than one sound card anyway?"
> 
> 		Jerome
Source please. I (and quite a few others on the PA list) have multiple
sound cards, and I've never encountered such attitudes from the primary
developers. The whole point of pavucontrol and module-combine is to
allow for easy sending of signals to different or multiple
cards/outputs.