On Wednesday 10 December 2008 16:57, sfilippo wrote: > Hmm. > Isn't it the case that all "normal" multimedia packages require pulseaudio > to produce sound, and therefore would be effectively disabled??? Hi Salvatore. That most definately is not the case. With Pulseaudio disabled, your sound apps will use Alsa directly, without Pulseaudio entering the equation. I have disabled Pulseaudio on all my Fedora installsF8, and F9, with no problems. I still have Pulseaudio enabled on a Ubuntu 8.10 install, mainly because I can't find out how to disable it, but the sounds are working ok. Pulseaudio appears to be usefull for setting volume levels for different audio apps that are running. As an example. You are listening to music, and you like too listen to it loud. You also have IM running (Gaim/Pidgin, Kopete whatever). Your volume is set to loud, and when you get a message from IM, you get a huge DING-DONG. With Pulseaudio you can set the level for your music app to high, and the level for the IM sounds to low, so that they are heard in the background, and you know that a message has arrived, without being a huge DING-DONG, which is likely to make you fall off your chair. I believe that Pulseaudio can also be used for networking sound to other computers in your home. How well this works, I don't know, as I'm alone, apart from my dog. The dog's not too good on the keyboard. Paws too big for picking out individual keys. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
