Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)
On Monday, June 9, 2014 3:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:38 PM, wrote:
> > except that each time I have read a reference to PA, it was to say that it
> > does not work correctly, and often, removing it seemed to solve the problem?
> PulseAudio does have its problems (I don't use it, because my sound
> card is a bit weird; I uninstalled PA and built ALSA from source, and
> everything's working, if a little fragile - this should not be taken
> as indicative), but with anything that's often installed by default,
> you'll hear advice to remove it more often than to install it, because
> the posts you're reading start from a standpoint of "my system has a
> problem". (People don't go around saying, "Hi, my system's working
> perfectly, what should I keep?". At least, I haven't heard much of
> that.)
> So, what's the general feeling? Is PA something that should be removed
> at first whiff of a problem, or is it a perfectly good program that
> cops an unfair reputation because of that selection bias?
JFTR: I try to stay with xfce if possible.
But parole was not working and I had to install totem.
This brought in a lot of gnome stuff -- including PA.
And the next I knew, sound had stopped working.
Started working when I removed PA.
[I may have got some details wrong... this is my memory of it]
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