Could this be the end?
Is this the way I am?
Sitting here alone
No one by my side
I don’t understand
I don’t feel that I deserve this
What did I do wrong?
I just don’t understand
Give me one more chance
Let me please explain
It wasn’t all just circumstance
I’ll tell you once again
You took me for a ride
Promising a vast adventure
The next that I know
I’m frightened for my life…
It really gets to my nerves when JREs (both Sun’s and OpenJDK) will by default output butt-ugly aliased fonts in all that is Swing (another reason to use Eclipse!).
Fortunately there’s an easy way to enable font anti-aliasing for all of swing (works on both Sun and OpenJDK, but OpenJDK imho looks better!):
-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd
So if your eyes are tired of NetBean’s ugliness, you could modify its shortcut like this:
/bin/sh "/home/andrew/local/netbeans-6.7/bin/netbeans" -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd
Do a Google search for awt.useSystemAAFontSettings for more info.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=225660
You can ignore the yum remove/install stuff.
The tsched=0/realtime-scheduling/default-fragment-size-msec stuff however seems to have fixed the problem for me.
You might (or might not) need, however, to make yourself a member of the pulse-rt group.
Update: upgrading to kernel 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 resolves these issues, and you can revert your PA configuration settings to their default values.
SlimWeb 0.9.3, codenamed “Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible.”, is available for download:
PulseAudio did it again.
On a NForce4 motherboard and a fully up-to-date Fedora 11 box, i.e. :
PulseAudio will crash only after a few seconds of playback 
((
The issue is old but is fixed according to Fedora’s official bug tracking system. In fact I can’t reproduce it with the F11 stock kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.
Here’s a quick and dirty workaround:
pasuspender mplayer -ao alsa:noblock:device=dmix=0.0 anything.mp3.or.avi
If you really hate PulseAudio in your guts you can even remove it from your system. Don’t forget to remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio as well. Dammit, why isn’t there an easier way to disable PulseAudio altogether and revert to alsa/dmix output for all applications and desktop environments in Fedora? Like back in the good old Fedora Core days?
Btw here’s the complete crash output from PulseAudio: