On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:44:21AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > My most recent experience with PulseAudio came when I noticed that WoW > (run through Wine) was producing crackling, stuttering sound again; this > was during the late months before the wheezy release. > > I tried half-a-dozen things, without noticeable change (except for the > things which led to no sound at all); eventually I noticed that some > PulseAudio packages had been installed, apparently as recommendations or > dependencies of other things. I tried a few things to disable use of > PulseAudio without removing it, without affecting the problem; I then > removed all *pulse* packages I could, and the problem was > gone.
Me too, and I don't even use a DE! One day sound just stopped working. Removing all of the *pulse* packages I could got sound working again. I didn't mess with anything either. If there _suddenly_ appears a bad smell in your house and you find the cause, do you a) Remove the cause? b) Waste time by trying to find out why it smells? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130717042936.GC11770@tal