KMSCON Is Getting Ready To Kick The Kernel Console

[Spidey]

I'm pretty excited for this to get some traction. We will get full featured, hardware accelerated consoles. I imagine that Valve and the linux gaming community at large are cheering for this kind of development. I don't think we'll be seeing console software much more that we see been developed today, but mplayer, maybe SDL, with a KMS console support would be great.

As a gentoo user, I can't say anything about systemd. Although I also use Ubuntu, "it just works" and I don't mind about the under the hood things, like I care when it concerns my gentoo box. On the other hand, I have some experience with pulseaudio. I have two negative points about ALSA:
1- Who the hell invented that configuration file syntax? Did anyone actually thought it would be usable? Is there even an accessible manual for that? I was at a loss when messing with ALSA, I always ended up copying someone else snippets, without knowing what I was doing. Please, point me to some documentation if there is any. I like their online database of hardware configurations, etc, it was a very good idea, but the configuration is just an immense pain in the ass. I'd rather have pulseaudio mess with that.
2- Can ALSA switch output devices on the fly? May I swap the output device of my mp3 from the laptop internal speakers to the recently connect tv, through an hdmi cable? I could do that with Windows, I can do that with PulseAudio. Can I do that with ALSA? Never got it to work.

[curaga]

It's quickly becoming the new Nazis, the longer any topic goes on the probability of Lennart being mentioned grows near 1.

[Hamish Wilson]

Did we really need another Pulseaudio/SystemD thread?

[dfx.]

correction

this is FOSS, and in FOSS you don't have to be an Alpha-tester, unless you want to.
no, it's not fun.
but maybe you can enlighten me if & how i can set up 2 _independent_ stereo + 1 mixed-on-the-fly-from-stereo-to-mono outputs for various programs's _simultaneous_ use, having only built-in motherboard's HDA with "standard" 6 holes (4 for 7.1 setup, Mic In, Line In) and using only pulseaudio and its GUI tools, huh ?

and by "2 _independent_ stereo" i wanted to say "2 _independent_ stereo [outputs] where 1 goes out 1 hole and other is mirrored to 2 at once", everything else applies.
yeah, this is how it is set up now for me with alsa.

i would _looove_ to have a _truly easier_ way for that stuff. which would also guarantee, that there is no unnecessary buffering and sound conversions on the way.

[diriel]

systemd

It would seem a lot of folks here are pretty clueless about what systemd is really about. It does scratch some "annoying / dangerous" itches. Itches that really do NOT have anything "better" in place. I could be nice and list some of them. You know what? I do not think so. Go READ! Quit being a Troll / Tool and actually read.

Now as for Pulse...I admit I still do not exactly love it, but at least *These Days* it pretty much works. Been a long and twisty road... You would think there might have been a less disruptive way... *cough*

[dfx.]

Yes but this is FOSS. If you know better you write something better. I haven't seen anyone proposing a better pulseaudio or systemd.
The whole anti-Lennartism thing is plain down stupid.

this is FOSS, and in FOSS you don't have to be an Alpha-tester, unless you want to.
i know better one thing for sure: _i_ _know better_ what _i need_.

i may crunch though many things, but refuse to deal with systemd in state it is now. but i may give it a chance once it matured enough. i don't need it, because i have better-suited alternatives, but i might want it someday.

pulseaudio is another story, for me: it's 100% useless and counter-productive to some extent. i don't need "something better", i don't need it, and i don't have a need to need it. i may _tolerate_ it, if it would start targeting all sound hardware and not just shitty notebooks's built-in HDA chips though.

and i don't hate Lennart, i hate more featureless and glitchy software and attitude of people, who make and cram it unto user masses.
i dislike policykit, nepomuk and its creators the same damn way as pulseaudio's.

but, from my point of view, kmscon's and wayland's guys have more decent approaches. i want their stuff, and don't mind needing it in the future.

PS: thank Daniel i'm using Gentoo and don't have PA installed and systemd activated. but that doesn't mean, i don't have a right to express indignation about it.

Because its so much fun to use a text editor to set up you sound devices.
And still people use Lennarts stuff. Go figure.

no, it's not fun.
but maybe you can enlighten me if & how i can set up 2 _independent_ stereo + 1 mixed-on-the-fly-from-stereo-to-mono outputs for various programs's _simultaneous_ use, having only built-in motherboard's HDA with "standard" 6 holes (4 for 7.1 setup, Mic In, Line In) and using only pulseaudio and its GUI tools, huh ?

That i welcome whatever makes Linux easier, user friendlier, more modern, and more standardized.

also, maybe you have some examples of things that cannot be done with existing alsa's GUI tools but can - with pulseaudio's ?
because, that what i asked above indeed can't be done with alsa's GUI and only with manual alsa config writing. i'm not aware however of any way to do it with pulseaudio, let alone _easier_ way. and everything else i need from sound system, on the contrary, can be done with alsa GUIs.

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the only thing, that i see, pulseaudio is good for now is dumbing down potential features of alsa & hardware at hand to "input to everything from single input hole plugged and output from everything to every output plugged of one selected device with memory of volume level per each device (remembering volume levels for each channel of each device ? forget that !)", which doesn't make existing things easier to use, but enables ignorant not to be overwhelmed by possibilities by eliminating those things.
which is quite fucked up. and a popular way to do things these days :/

damn, i dream of the day PA's GUI would be made that wlll be able to automatically repressent all the possibilities of alsa usage for any configuration of alsa-supported sound devices, utilising all hardware-features and alsa software-features ! then i will be motherfucking impressed !

[LightBit]

Because its so much fun to use a text editor to set up you sound devices.

Yes, it is fun to use text editor, because it always works.

Why didn't he write setup GUI for ALSA, if that is a problem.

[89c51]

People also complain about the pulse setup GUIs, of which there are a ton of. Your point was?

That i welcome whatever makes Linux easier, user friendlier, more modern, and more standardized.

Have you tried systemd?

[curaga]

People also complain about the pulse setup GUIs, of which there are a ton of. Your point was?

[89c51]

This. No need to write anything new to be better, many existing solutions are already better.

Because its so much fun to use a text editor to set up you sound devices.

And still people use Lennarts stuff. Go figure.