• Apply https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3578
• Apply https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3579
• Also, need to be sure https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2601 is also taken care of (it needs some fixing in ALSA's ioplug, where Takashi is the person to contact).
• We probably want to make the pulse plugin for ALSA default if it is installed. To accomplish this clealy Fedora installs this config file in /etc/alsa/: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/alsa-plugins/pulse-default.conf?rev=1.2&view=auto and added this patch to read that file if it is available. That way, the PA plugin is automatically enabled if it is installed. If it is not installed the traditional behaviour is kept.

• Copy package from Packman

• abba patch. This is a patch to fix some freezing happening when running pulseaudio in gnome-session. I fear we have to get that patch manually from Fedora's glibc-2.6.90-14. Hence getting it directly from upstream glibc CVS is probably the best way to get it. This is part of glibc 2.7 anyway.

• check all oss/libaoss using apps work with this. This needs to be read carefully. For applications insisting on using OSS consider adding wrappers like this:

#!/bin/sh
if test -x /usr/bin/padsp ; then
  exec /usr/bin/padsp -n "Foomedia Flush" -- therealprogram "$@"
else
  exec therealprogram "$@"
fi

This makes those applications appear much nicer (s/Foomedia Flush/RealApplicationName) in the PulseAudio volume control. Using -m for padsp might make sense too.

• For jack and quake2 (and similar apps using raw ALSA or when the software doesn't work with our ALSA or OSS emulation), consider adding wrappers like this:

 #!/bin/sh
if test -x /usr/bin/pasuspender ; then
  exec /usr/bin/pasuspender therealprogram "$@"
else
  exec therealprogram  "$@"
fi

This wil temporarily suspend PA's access to the audio devices, making it accessible for other applications. Note that PA closes the devices after 1s of idle anyway, so most of the time this script won't even be necessary, except in cases where one of these apps is started from a menu or similar where an event sound is generated when clicking on the menu item which will block the audio device for a second, i.e. possibly causing the app started not being able to open the audio device. Hence it is better to have these wrapper scripts. Note that on some applications just using pasuspender is not sufficient. If they use "default" as ALSA audio device they still will be connected to PA. Hardcoded device strings is a big problem anyway, especially with closed source software. It's not fun.

• install by default
• Imported package in home:rodrigomoya:pulseaudio repository

• install by default
• Import package in home:rodrigomoya:pulseaudio repository

• package but not ship by default
• Import package in home:rodrigomoya:pulseaudio repository

• volume monitor
• Import package in home:rodrigomoya:pulseaudio repository

• panel applet, will be eventually be replaced
• Import package in home:rodrigomoya:pulseaudio repository

• The PA backend for XINE is not perfect, but apparently good enough. There have been some issues that need to be fixes. It's on Lennart's TODO list.||

• Lennart has patch (This goes to packman?) which he says is out-of-date. It was never accepted by the MPlayer people so it bitrotted a bit, and doesn't apply as is anymore on MPlayer. Lennart plans to post it a second time, cleaned up, but since Fedora doesn't ship Mplayer this is no top-priority for him. Also, the ALSA backend of MPlayer seems to work fine with the PA plugin for ALSA.

• libflashsupport.so (if exists, overrides audio functions), grab from lennart's git (git.0pointer.de). Flash is big pile of bugs. If libflashsupport.so is not used it will open as many PCM streams as possible (64 on PA), and then it cannot really cope with that and doesn't work anymore. And PA refuses to take any further connections as a safety feature. In effect, if you load Flash without that aforementioned plugin you basically kill audio entirely until your browser terminates and all connections Flash made to PA are closed. (yes, Flash keeps all streams open all the time, it never closes them until the browser terminates. It's an evil piece of software)
• Make sure flash audio works on x86_64 with nspluginwrapper (it's possible, but you need to have 32bit libs of libflashsupport and pulseaudio as well as any deps)
• There is a package for a PA-based plugin here.
• Imported libflashsupport package in home:rodrigomoya:pulseaudio repository

• Turn off session support in pulse, autostart fragment to turn on xsmp

• Needs to reflect pulse audio better