On Tue, 25.03.08 19:24, Matthew Saltzman (mjs(a)clemson.edu) wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 23:01 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> I am all for orphaning/removing/killing it now. A lot of bugs have
> been reported against PA which were actually /etc/modprobe.conf
> fuckups due to s-c-s. Even as a test program it is not particularly
> useful. It is obsoleted by all the udev hotplug fancyness. AFAICS
> there's not a single feature of it left that is not obsolete or even
> counterproductive.
I do find it a handy way to generate a repeated sound to test whether
there's been any progress on getting my Thinkpad volume control buttons
working (there hasn't, at least in F8), but (a) you might think that's a
counterproductive use 8^) and (b) I'm not advocating keeping it just for
that.
pacat < /dev/urandom
is awesome for that. It even has the magic powers to annoy the hell
out of you.
Lennart
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