PulseAudio 0.9.13 released

I've been getting to grips with PulseAudio since it was introduced in
Fedora and it definitely looks nice. It has several tools and applets that
give you access to a wealth of information and settings.

Great. But...

I also get the idea that it is not getting any easier. I find Linux audio
to be one of those areas where I hope that everything will just work fine
after installation and will continue to work fine afterwards because trying
to fix things that don't work has caused me to utter some amount of
expletives.

My system for example has an ATI graphics card (especially bought after
AMD/ATI announced that they we're making their specs public) that support
HDMI audio. So I thought I would make a go at making it work. But soon I
got lost in a forest of dependencies that I just can't seem to understand.

First, the ATI HDMI audio device doesn't show up in any of the PulseAudio
tools, although it does show up in the KDE4 audio settings, but it is
disabled. The alsamixer only shows a PulseAudio device, while alsactl does
show the device and in fact with aplay I'm able to play audio using the ATI
output (although I still don't hear anything but that has to do with the
radeonhd driver, using a gfx driver for audio, how weird can things get?
hehe). But alsactl (and the KDE audio settings) also show an nVidia audio
device that isn't in my system anymore and I have no idea how to get rid of
that (I'm sure it involves messing around with some files in /etc/alsa).

It's just one example, but it has happened over and over in the years that
I've been using Linux. So it's nice to have all those high-level tools, but
I hope the low-level stuff won't be forgotten because all in all I think we
still have some way to go before this works effortlessly.