Re: pulseaudio related problems....
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de):
> > On 02/15/2014 09:22 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > > So, before doing so: will that be helpful?
> >
> > I think most people simply don't configure PulseAudio correctly. They
> > have the assumption that sound cards are still simple devices with
> > one input jack and one output jack and any application using it just
> > has to find the sound card and output its audio signal.
>
> I'm one of these people. I indeed don't remember installing pulseaudio
> voluntarily. It probably came out as a Recommends from something else
Same here, I didn't ask for it to be installed, and I have
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
> (my system runs unstable, with KDE as DE and hasn't been reinstalled
> since.....well, maybe woody? :-)))
I'm not running a DE, just FVWM, so don't really see why pulseaudio was
installed on a system if it was a DE dependency.
> > So, in order to be able to properly configure PulseAudio, install
> > "pavucontrol"
# apt-get install pavucontrol
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Wow! All this to configure a piece of software I didn't ask for, when my
set up was working perfectly before it was installed.
Please, let's try and use a bit of common sense here.
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