Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > Hey Joel, any tips on how to successfully ditch pulse? Hi Jeffery, If you depend on speech to use your system, it might be wise to have someone helpful around before fiddling with the sound. In particular, ALSA has a bunch of mixer settings, and for years when people doing a new linux installations would complain about not having sound, one or another mixer setting being muted. There is no guarantee what state pipewire or pulseaudio will leave the sound devices when disabled. So you'll want an unmute script available. Here's a reference for commands (or a script) to unmute various ALSA parameters. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124769 I would compare the parameters in the script to the parameters listed in `amixer scontents` to be sure it corresponds to my hardware--I think they're the same for all soundcards. To not fiddle with your package dependencies, it makes sense to start with *disabling* your sound server rather than remove it entirely. For pipewire this looks simple, just two steps. https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/k5ojur/if_you_have_audio_problems_turn_off_pipewire/ However for pulseaudio it is complicated, taking three answers by three authors to clarify: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1197420/how-do-i-stop-pulseaudio When you get pulseaudio/pipewire stopped, you'll need to restart your screenreader software so it will access the ALSA device now exposed. Now run your unmute script if necessary. Through all this you haven't altered your software configuration, so you're always able to reboot to get back to a previous configuration. Once you've verified that you can do your work with bare ALSA, you can remove the pulseaudio or pipewire package. To me pulseaudio and systemd (written by the same author as pulseaudio) add a lot of wrinkles to administering a linux system, more than is justified by their capabilities, which are available elsewhere in small, discrete libraries. I migrated from debian to devuan to avoid introducing the complexity and huge attack surface of systemd. Good luck configuring your audio! Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > Hey Joel, any tips on how to successfully ditch pulse? That it comes as > part of a clean install with how I setup Debian itches against my > minimalist tendencies, but as much as I want to tell Aptitude to purge the > pulseaudio metapackage, I'm afraid I'll end up with a mute system before > Aptitude even finishes executing changes with no idea how to restore sound > short of reinstalling Linux. -- Joel Roth To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.