On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:37:28 +0100, John P. Hartmann wrote: >Other applications may need pulse audio to produce sound altogether. AFAIK skype requires pulseaudio. I'm using plain ALSA or jackd. The OP might need pulseaudio, if getting sound from several desktop applications at the same time is wanted, without taking care about another sound server, such as jackd, or using another alternative such as dmix. I assume it was not intended to send it off-list: Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:37:28 +0100 From: "John P. Hartmann" To: Ralf Mardorf Subject: Re: a strange thing pulseaudio -k And to start it, pulseaudio --start On my Ubuntu 14.4, the control panel applet for sound contains nothing unless pulseaudio is running. I also discovered that firefox needs the proper card configured in the applet, but once that is done, pulse audio is not needed to run. Other applications may need pulse audio to produce sound altogether. On 11/14/2016 04:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I agree, for troubleshooting purpose disabling pulseaudio is a good > idea. I don't know how to do this, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
