Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1
On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 08:47 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote:
> With Debian Wheezy XFCE, I figured out that pulseaudio was not even
> installed after my first boot, which left me without any sound. I had
> to install pulseaudio separately and repeat what I did in Xubuntu
> 12.04. Now I have sound working on my desktop but still, I am having
> warnings about pulseaudio during startup.
>
> I think Debian is using double standard against XFCE because I also
> installed the default Gnome from Debian wheezy on this machine and
> pulseaudio was installed and configured without any additional effort.
> I was still having the warnings about pulseaudio though...
Upstream add pulseaudio as an insane hard dependency to GNOME, Xfce
doesn't. This has nothing to do with Debian. Pulseaudio might provide
something useful for some usages, but it's not needed just to get sound,
since it does use ALSA, it's just a layer. Pulseaudio not always is fine
with the information it needs from the ALSA drivers, so I recommend
against pulseaudio (there are other reasons too) and to set up ALSA
correctly for your audio device.
However, IIUC you want it working out of the box, but with Linux it's
nearly impossible to get everything working by default.
If Suse works out of the box, you should use Suse and than never do an
upgrade.
I strongly recommend to learn how to get Linux working by setting it up
yourself and not to hope that there is a distro that makes everything
working by default.
We perhaps could help you, if you would post the messages you get with
or without pulseaudio. Running apps that need audio in a terminal, in
verbose mode, checking log files in /var and last but not least taking a
look at ~/.xsession-errors should provide the needed information.
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