On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 19:27 -0700, stan wrote: > On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:21:59 +0200 > lars.bjorndal@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Lars Bjørndal) wrote: > > > Dear list > > > > Could you please advice me in how to get sound within GNOME without > > pulseaudio, e.g. with ALSA/ESD? > > I don't think this is possible anymore. I am not an expert at this but > I believe that pulse is so closely integrated with Gnome now that it > requires pulse in order to generate sounds. I know that if I use something > from Gnome that needs sound, pulse is automatically started even though I > have it disabled. > > I think this is the culprit. > > /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper > > Can you afford to install a cheap sound card that you can give over > exclusively to pulse, and remove your existing card from it's purview? > Or vice versa. > > Then you use one card for orca and espeak, and let pulse use the other > for Gnome to produce system sounds. > It's my experiennce that removing alsa-plugind-pulseaudio disables pulseaudio and you are back to just alsa. Running alsamixer leads me to that conclusion. -- ======================================================================= Today is the first day of the rest of your lossage. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines