On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 10:38 +0100, Stefan Wilkens wrote: > 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 So I should install PA, while not using it? Is this the interpretation of KISS by Arch Linux? I already have written that I'll use a HDSP card = HDSP mixer, a desktop mixer thingy won't be able to handle such an audio card and my sound server will be Jack with ALSA backend. - Ralf
