This isn't purely an alsa question/problem, but I suspect it's not a unique question either... I've been doing some occasional audio application development on Ubuntu 7.10 using command-line alsa utilities (arecord, aplay, amixer, etc.); my busy schedule has occasionally put my work "on the shelf". In trying to do a forced upgrade cycle (Ubuntu 7 is obsolete) I've been coping unsuccessfully with Pulseaudio. (read more this paragraph for my tale.) I came back to this recently and built a fresh Ubuntu 7.10 system only to discover that it's been thoroughly obsoleted (to the point I can't use apt-get to pick up various applications and other things I typically had gathered due to mostly gone repositories.) I went on to Ubuntu 8 (failed due to a DMA compatibility problem with my disc controller as I'm using a consumer compact flash drive as mass storage)) then tried Ubuntu 9, and while installed OK, discovered that "pulseaudio" had introduced complications (such as "aplay" wouldn't work out-of-box as an ordinary user, nor would it output any audio playing a .WAV file), as well as soaking up way much CPU cycles (I am using a 500 MHz VIA C3 machine that had been adequate for my Ubuntu 7.10 based work, and I'd very much like to continue with this platform as it's power-efficient and well suited to the application I've got in mind.) I tried Fedora 10 and realized it too had Pulseaudio and similar problems. I retrieted to Fedora 7 (to get to a point before Pulseaudio) and that wouldn't load on my machine (DMA compatibility problem.) My question is this - is it practical to entirely remove a recent distribution's audio subsystem (alsa and pulseaudio I believe) and re-install alsa in some stand-alone fashion? I realize this is more of a how-to-build-a-distribution type question, but I'm not really sure where to start otherwise. Thanks, Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
