Another solution is apulse, which provides partial pulseaudio emulation for applications which expect pulseaudio to be installed without pulseaudio being installed: <https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse.git> There's also a debian package in the devuan Ascii repository. Greg On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 07:03:29PM +0200, Didier Spaier wrote: > Hello, > > To elaborate on what Kirk said and for the records, is is possible to > make pulse peacefully coexist with apps relying on ALSA without running > PulseAudio system wide. > > Just tell PulseAudio to use dmix. For instance in /etc/pulse/default.pa: > load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix > load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop > > And make sure that no ALSA configuration file tells it to direct the > streams to PulseAudio, of course <smile> > > Also, I start PulseAudio on demand (when an application requests it), > not when starting a console or desktop session. > > Best, Didier > -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
