Re: How do I get sound in GNOME without pulseaudio

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Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Thank you! That solved my problems.

Lars

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