On Wed, 25 May 2016 11:40:27 -0400, Steve wrote in message <20160525114027.64eb3...@mydesk.domain.cxm>:
> On Wed, 25 May 2016 07:56:57 +0200 > <emnin...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > Is pulseaudio necessary? As i understand it (and as i remember), it > > shouldn't be needed (in lubuntu at least in former times) it was not > > installed ... (?) But it's a long time i was away from Debian ... > > There's no Pulseaudio on my system. So I don't get centralized > individual volume controls for each of my sound sources. Boo hoo hoo > hoo hoo. > > When I need to use the Microsoft sabotaged Skype, which requires > Pulseaudio, I run it via apulse instead, and it works just fine. No > reason to use Pulseaudio itself. > > IMHO Alsa is sufficient. > > Once I built a Manjaro-OpenRC system with no Pulseaudio AND no Alsa. > Just OSS. Worked great, played Youtube videos just fine. I've never > again been able to do that. ..well, we're not exactly out of sound server options: ;o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_for_audio#Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_audio_software#Sound_servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_server ..why not try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit on ditching PulseAudio? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
