Pulse recently replaced esound as the dependent sound server for gnome[1], esound has been marked dead. You might have some relative success if you drop pulse and do some per-application configuration to redirect their default output to alsa or OSS. While this would work for applications such as gstreamer (gstreamer-properties), pidgin, vlc, mplayer.. you will find yourself with a broken gnome. You'll need a new mixer application, setup software mixing (or hardware if your card privides) etc. You may find life simpler by disabling [2] pulse, rather than removing it. [1] http://live.gnome.org/PulseAudio [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=928817#p928817 2011/12/23 Ionut Biru <ibiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 12/23/2011 11:25 AM, Ralf Madorf wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 11:17 +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: >>> can you clarify that you are talking about pulseaudio and not about >>> libpulse? >> >> # pacman -Rss pulseaudio >> checking dependencies... >> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) >> :: gnome-settings-daemon: requires pulseaudio >> :: pulseaudio-alsa: requires pulseaudio >> >> >> > > ok then, gnome requires pulseaudio. The only way to get rid of > pulseaudio is to get rid of gnome. > > -- > Ionuț > -- msn: stefan_wilkens@xxxxxxxxxxx e-mail: stefanwilkens@xxxxxxxxx blog: http://www.stefanwilkens.eu/ adres: Lipperkerkstraat 14 7511 DA Enschede
