Hi, I'm using Debian "Wheezy" Testing on both my desktop computer and my Laptop. On the Laptop the sound works fine, but on the desktop I can't play two or more sounds at the same time, for example while watching a video on VLC, hitting pause, then opening a video on YouTube.
Other problem is: after watching a video on VLC and closing VLC, I have to wait 20 seconds to open a new VLC program since otherwise the sound coming out of the speakers will be garbage. Since after killing the PulseAudio daemon with pulseaudio -k the problems goes away, it is my strong opinion that this is a PulseAudio issue. My workaround so far was to remove the execution permissions on PulseAdio with: chmod a-x /usr/bin/pulseaudio I have two questions: 1. How can I debug this problem? I'd like to file an appropiate bug on the corresponding bug tracker. 2. I can't purge the package with "aptitude purge pulseaudio" since the package "pulseaudio" is a dependency on "gnome-core". After killing PulseAudio, the sound works fine. I'm a software developer myself, and I can't help keep asking myself, why is PulseAudio an strong dependency on Gnome? What advantages does PulseAudio gives me as a user over good ol' ALSA? -- Alejandro Santos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKMi1Tzpqc4+txeahjKggqn6+s--X4u9-YFC=mgpja_scmx...@mail.gmail.com
