Comment 34 for bug 367671

> I take it that no support, or at least help, will be forthcoming from the Ubuntu side?

Of course, I cannot speak for the entire Ubuntu community. Ubuntu relies on volunteers such as yourself to help out with all parts of making the distribution. For my own part, I'm following this with great interest, but I'm not running linux-rt and this package has also been removed from maverick/natty.

> PA is a stability and usability nightmare, and it has always been so.

I've been working quite a bit with this during the past few months and hopefully, the PA version shipping with Natty is more stable and usable than ever before!

> I think the problem is that PA developers put a low priority on making the software "just work" for the user.

For the next release, I hope to be able to work a little with "jack detection" ( https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/hwe-o-audio-jack-detection ) to make it even better and more of "just works".