[arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

[Heiko Baums]

Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:55:28 +0000
schrieb Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>:

> Could be. My impression is based on talking with LP face to face.
> And yours ?

My is based on a bug report, upstream's solution for closing this bug
report - this weird ALSA configuration which cripples those cards to
pure stereo cards - and their response to the reopening of this bug
report.

> I fully agree that designing Gnome or KDE so they can't be installed 
> easily without PA by a user who accepts the consequences of doing so
> (no desktop sounds) is a sign of *very crappy* engineering.
> 
> OTOH, if you use one of those desktops you can just suspend PA, start
> Jack and your apps and go on. I don't use Gnome or KDE, I don't have
> PA installed so I can't talk from experience. But I know that people
> are doing this all the time. For example Joern Nettingsmeier, who is
> probably using the most complex and advanced pro audio setups ever
> done in Linux, apparently has no problem with this.

OK, looks like there is a working workaround, but not a real solution.
The solution would be a better engineering.

Heiko