why do we use systemd?

[R. G. Newbury]

> lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>> >Kevin Fenzi writes:
>> >pulseaudio, which I leave alone right up to the moment I have
>> >problems--any problems--with sound, and then eliminate as a usually
>> >successful first stab at a solution.
> How do you eliminate pulseaudio on Fedora?  It doesn't do anything but
> get in the way.

You cannot 'eliminate' it, but you can circumvent it from getting in the 
way. I use

yum -y erase xine-lib-pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio


It is the latter which is the important one for using alsa.

Geoff