On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de): > > On 02/15/2014 09:22 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > So, before doing so: will that be helpful? > > > > I think most people simply don't configure PulseAudio correctly. They > > have the assumption that sound cards are still simple devices with > > one input jack and one output jack and any application using it just > > has to find the sound card and output its audio signal. > > I'm one of these people. I indeed don't remember installing pulseaudio > voluntarily. It probably came out as a Recommends from something else
Same here, I didn't ask for it to be installed, and I have APT::Install-Recommends "false"; > (my system runs unstable, with KDE as DE and hasn't been reinstalled > since.....well, maybe woody? :-))) I'm not running a DE, just FVWM, so don't really see why pulseaudio was installed on a system if it was a DE dependency. > > So, in order to be able to properly configure PulseAudio, install > > "pavucontrol" # apt-get install pavucontrol [...] 0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 7,500 kB of archives. After this operation, 38.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Wow! All this to configure a piece of software I didn't ask for, when my set up was working perfectly before it was installed. Please, let's try and use a bit of common sense here. -- "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/20140217030212.GG24018@tal