How do I get sound in GNOME without pulseaudio
Lars Bjørndal
lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no
Tue Aug 18 19:44:29 UTC 2009
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 19:27 -0700, stan wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:21:59 +0200
>> lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no (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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