On 01/02/2013 03:48 PM, Wido wrote: > I'll speak for myself. I don't like pulse, really. I don't. > > Having an audio layer over an audio layer, to me, sucks. And I don't see > any advantages on having it (well, maybe is simpler to configure, I may > give you that) > > My system has an onboard ATI chipset for audio and video (has HDMI), and > a discrete NVidia 550 (also has hdmi). I'm using 2 monitors, one with > DVI and the other with DVI->VGA. I'm using the onboard sound card (has 6 > plugs). And i DON'T have anything related to pulse installed. > > In my experience, it is possible to have everything 'just working'. I > reinstalled debian wheezy 2 weeks ago, I did not configure alsa and it > just works. E has a mixer module, it recognises both sound cars (right > click on gadget -> preferences) and you may select which channel to > default. To me, it was easy to configure it fisrt with 'alsamixer', but > then E took that configuration and 'just work'. No pulse audio, no > middle layers, E to ALSA. > > Wido > Thank you for your wisdom on this subject. After taking in you perspective I was able to rethink my situation - I finally found a guide for setting nVidia as the default sound card by editing /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf in the "# defaults" section, followed the guide and uninstalled all the excess pulseaudio libs that I could.
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