Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 04:18:32PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le primidi 1er fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ric Moore a écrit :
> > Pulse generally is a pussycat. It sits on top of alsa and if alsa is broken,
> > pulse is broken.
>
> On the other hand, there are situations where ALSA works perfectly and just
> INSTALLING the pulseaudio package would break it, even if it was absolutely
> not used.
>
> You can see traces of that problem in the configuration snippets that
> pulseaudio drops in ALSA:
>
> @hooks [
> {
> func pulse_load_if_running
> files [
> "/usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf"
> ]
> errors false
> }
> ]
>
> pcm.!default {
> type pulse
> hint {
> show on
> description "Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server"
> }
> }
>
> The "pulse_load_if_running" guard was not always present.
What file(s) are you talking about here?
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