Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound

1. Do not cross post to *three* mailing lists.
2. Post to the correct mailing list. In this case that's freebsd-questions@. That's the mailing list for asking questions like "Is anyone else seeing this problem?", "What can I do to help debug this problem?", "How did things become so bad?", etc.
3. Create problem reports in the FreeBSD bug database.
4. Don't wait for months or years before reporting a problem.
5. Test FreeBSD releases when they are in BETA or PRERELEASE. Don't wait until it's too late.
6. Learn the difference between FreeBSD and third-party software from ports (e.g. PulseAudio).
7. Understand that the way you configure your system may be very different from the way other people configure their systems. Bugs seen by you might not occur for others. In particular, a developer making a change might not be seeing the behaviour you consider to be a bug at all.
8. Always consider the possibility that your hardware might be failing.
9. Provide patches and solutions instead of complaining.

Best regards,
Jordan Gordeev