On Monday, June 9, 2014 3:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:38 PM, wrote: > > except that each time I have read a reference to PA, it was to say that it > > does not work correctly, and often, removing it seemed to solve the problem?
> PulseAudio does have its problems (I don't use it, because my sound > card is a bit weird; I uninstalled PA and built ALSA from source, and > everything's working, if a little fragile - this should not be taken > as indicative), but with anything that's often installed by default, > you'll hear advice to remove it more often than to install it, because > the posts you're reading start from a standpoint of "my system has a > problem". (People don't go around saying, "Hi, my system's working > perfectly, what should I keep?". At least, I haven't heard much of > that.) > So, what's the general feeling? Is PA something that should be removed > at first whiff of a problem, or is it a perfectly good program that > cops an unfair reputation because of that selection bias? JFTR: I try to stay with xfce if possible. But parole was not working and I had to install totem. This brought in a lot of gnome stuff -- including PA. And the next I knew, sound had stopped working. Started working when I removed PA. [I may have got some details wrong... this is my memory of it] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1ced09d8-e07e-4fc8-b4ca-3f22d926b...@googlegroups.com
