Re: My sound blaster live disappeared

2011-11-19 Thread Brad Alexander
Yeah, the problem with that is that some package maintainer for some package that I do use, down the line, may get the bright idea to make pulse a dependency. I also wonder if a newer build of Debian may work out the issues with pulse. This particular box hasn't been rebuilt in about 5 years...I p

Re: My sound blaster live disappeared

2011-11-19 Thread Ingo Kasten
Am 19.11.2011 21:40, schrieb Brad Alexander: Thanks, gents...That worked for a treat. Now what is the best way to keep it from getting reinstalled? First, let me repeat (with other words): it is a dirty way. But I guess, if you do not install gnome-core again, you won't get pulseaudio as well

Re: My sound blaster live disappeared

2011-11-19 Thread Graham
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:32:48 -0500 Brad Alexander wrote: > Thanks, gents...That worked for a treat. Now what is the best way to > keep it from getting reinstalled? Firstly, let me say that I've not got pulseaudio installed, so forgive me if there's a better way. If there's no sensible way to dis

Re: My sound blaster live disappeared

2011-11-19 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks, gents...That worked for a treat. Now what is the best way to keep it from getting reinstalled? On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ingo Kasten wrote: > > What I usually do is remove pulseaudio and it works afterwards. >> > > That's what I did, too. Removing pulseaudio instantly brings back

Re: My sound blaster live disappeared

2011-11-19 Thread Ingo Kasten
What I usually do is remove pulseaudio and it works afterwards. That's what I did, too. Removing pulseaudio instantly brings back the sound :-) Unfortunately pulseaudio is a dependency of gnome(3)-core , which is, as far as I understand, just for keeping gnome consistant. I removed it, too.

Re: My sound blaster live disappeared

2011-11-19 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 11/19/2011 06:21 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: Hi, I'm posting this because I don't know where to begin looking. I have done a few searches, and it seems to be alles in ordnung, but things still aren't working. To explain, I have a SBLive emu10k1 card in my sid workstation. All was fine unti

My sound blaster live disappeared

2011-11-19 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi, I'm posting this because I don't know where to begin looking. I have done a few searches, and it seems to be alles in ordnung, but things still aren't working. To explain, I have a SBLive emu10k1 card in my sid workstation. All was fine until a few weeks ago: 05:01.0 Multimedia audio control