Can pulseaudio be gotten rid of?? Karmic...

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 02:08:41 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 09:32 +0000, Brian Norman Wootton wrote:
> I wish to rid my install of pulseaudio. I thought I had it licked, but
> it keeps popping up via updates. Once in for all times, how to get RID
> of this POS? Why not keep it in beta mode for people to install if they
> wish to tinker with it, until all the bugs are worked out?? Meanwhile,
> it's upsetting my apple cart.  :)  Ric
> ---
> 
> I hope the distro installs alsa and pulse audio because I use mplayer a 
> lot, even though it has bugs -  mplayer steals alsa and won't let any 
> other app. use it! I get the same black bottom right pop-up every time 
> I boot up which states the alsa driver does not work and the OS is 
> defaulting to pulse audio. So on my machine(jaunty amd64) I have mplayer
> using alsa permanently, amarok and skype using pulse audio - I need 
> both drivers. 
>  I might add that kplayer(front end to mplayer) bombs out to the crash 
> handler every time I quit it.
> I have reported this to sourceforge but have heard nothing so far.
> brian

I'm glad you mentioned that about mplayer. Explains why firefox would
hog audio when using mozplugger. Thanx! Ric



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