Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone
On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 11:17 +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400
> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> > Kaj Persson wrote:
> > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the
> > > Pulseaudio is
> > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor.
> > > Which
> > > is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting
> > > Alsa be
> > > the one and only audio system? Are there any serious
> > > disadvantages
> > > doing so?
> >
> > There is one serious disadvantage: Firefox doesn't support audio
> > in any other way except PulseAudio.
>
> is that actually true? Here I can watch videos on yt or vimeo for
> example
> in firefox with sound perfectly intact without pulseaudio installed.
> In which situations does sound in ff not work?
Hmm, I just uninstalled PulseAudio and Firefox audio still works, so I
guess Debian are still enabling ALSA in their builds. As others have
pointed out, this is likely to not be the case in the long run.
Think I may have installed PulseAudio as an effort to get Google
Hangouts video chat working in the Chromium browser. Just tried that
and with ALSA, I can't seem to get it to use headphones even when they
are selected explicitly by name.
--
Tixy
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