Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone
One thing you might try is to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, and set:
flat-volumes = no
This will fix most problems with pulseaudio, and alsa will work pretty
much as expected.
John
BTW, automatic volume control was added in Windows 10. This was the
era that pulseaudio was developed, and the same functionality was
included. It didn't work out in Windows 10, and the functionality was
removed. Pulseaudio still has the functionality.
Georgi Naplatanov writes:
> On 6/4/19 10:24 PM, 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?
>
> PulseAudio is some kind of mixer/proxy between ALSA and desktop
> applications. In modern GNU/Linux OSes it's discouraged to remove/not
> using PulseAudio.
>
> Are there any serious disadvantages doing so?
>
> If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA
> device at the same time on your computer. Even some applications support
> PulseAudio only.
>
> Why don't you want to use PulseAudio, any problems?
>
> Kind regards
> Georgi
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