GNOME depends on Pulseaudio. You can manually break Pulseaudio so that it doesn't work correctly, usually by symlinking /bin/true, but that can cause problems when packages are updated. Your best bet, unless you have something like a USB headset that may or may not always be plugged into the system, would be to connect Pulseaudio through the Alsa Dmix plugin. The problem with doing this is that Pulseaudio can no longer automatically detect hotplugged devices such as USB headsets, as you will need to stop it from grabbing your main hardware via udev. If you don't have a problem with this method, instructions are available at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA.2Fdmix_without_grabbing_hardware_device This is in the Arch Linux wiki, but should work correctly in Debian as well. Hope this helps. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
