Re: How do I get sound in GNOME without pulseaudio

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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.
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