[Mageia-dev] [changelog] cauldron core/release sound-scripts-0.61-2.mga2

Mon Sep 19 17:56:22 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 19/09/11 15:27 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> Not all people use PA.
+>>> We even have options in draksound in order to disable it...
+>>> Hence we must still support the case were PA isn't around...
+>>
+>> Yeah, but by the same token, turning off PA is obviously not part of the
+>> recommended config.
+>>
+>> If people turn off PA, they have to expect a less integrated solution.
+>>
+>> And it's not as if things don't work. It's just that their systems would
+>> require a little more configuration than before. But in turning off PA,
+>> that's pretty much what they are signing up for anyway.
+>>
+>> Hence my desire not to fix this "bug" when it's already fixed in the
+>> default setup.
+>>
+>> But if this is a show stopper for more people, I will see what we can do.
+> 
+> What about reverting a change :-) ?
+
+No, because it has the side affect of breaking sound from USB devices
+when booting with systemd!
+
+I probably should have noted it in the commit message but I did put a
+comment in the spec file (of course I probably should have mentioned it
+in this thread earlier too, but I guess I that because I just had it in
+my head, I assumed it was a given - silly me!).
+
+To explain further: alsa-utils has specific upstream-provided systemd
+units to do the volume save/restore, I very much wanted to use them
+rather than our home-made sound-scripts stuff.
+
+I've left the scripts themselves in place for sysvinit boots, but on
+systemd they are completely unused (I put in dummy units to ensure the
+sysvinit versions were not run). This means that the
+/var/lock/subsys/alsa file is never put in place and snd-usb-audio is
+never loaded due to the modprobe rule.
+
+This is why I removed it.
+
+We could of course go back to the sound-scripts solution, but I don't
+think it's really wise longer term.
+
+Col
+
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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+  Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/]
+Open Source:
+  Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/]
+  PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/]
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