On Friday 23 Dec 2011 10:57:40 Ralf Madorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 13:02 +0330, ali.mousavi@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > you can't use gnome 3 without pulse audio. if you don't want to use > > pulse audio, consider using another DE or WM. > > At the moment I'm using Xfce only, but I will have the libre to use > GNOME3 too, since it works without PA. It did work without PA for my > Debian. > > As mentioned before, at the moment only GDM is installed. Then as Ali says, just use a different DM. There are several to choose from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager And if you want to, file a bug report upstream about the dependency on pulse. Pete.