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Re: [orca-list] removing pulse audio. will this work?

You can run skype with out pulse, but does it let you actually talk and listen with out it?
OK, now I see the package, had a dash in the name, 
lib32-apulse
I'd have certainly given this a try a few months ago when I finally broke down and installed pulse on my arch 
box. 
Some one should talk to the package maintainer for skype and change the post install msg to mention this and 
list this as an alt dep. Last I looked at 
/installed skype on arch it gave a message about pulse being required to voice chat.
Anyway, after all that and my slight aprehention re installing s pulse on a perfectly good pure alsa system, 
pulse has treated me fine on arch using 
dmix. 
I'm trying to remember which if any other application absolutely required pulse. 
I know mangler had to be held back a version or two  to work with out it. 
So, as far as you know does the apulse lib work with any and all applications that normally require PA?
Sorry if I sounded a doubter at the beginning of the msg, but when I could not even find the package yo 
mentiohned I thought the a must have been a 
typop...lol/was just the missing dash of course. 
 
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  Storm Dragon wrote:
Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:08:46PM -0400


howdy,
In Arch, at least, you can install skype without pulse. There's a package called lib32apulse which fakes 
skype in to thinking it is running in pulse. I have not really liked pulse since it came out. It's always 
caused far more problems for me than it solved. The only thing I ever really thought was neat about pulse 
was recording from the sound card, and maybe per-application volume controls, but well written apps have 
that built in anyway, using pulse or not.
HTH
Storm
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 01:48:04PM -0500, B. Henry wrote:

Life is not necesarily simpler with out pulse.
Exact steps vary depending on distro, well package names vary more to the point.
You can't use skype with out pulse, at least not to talk and hear others talk.
You can set up a hybrid system using dmix where pure alsa is the default where possible, and pulse is used 
when needed.
What distro are you using? Have you been using it for a while, i.e. have you customized your system in 
important ways?
You might be best off making a pure alsa system from scratch, e.g. on arch-linux. You could even dual or 
multiboot with one OS being a pure alsa distro
if you know that this will for some reason mke your podcast production easier than it would be using 
pulseaudio.
Don't forget you'll need to configure speech-dispatcher to use alsa instead of pulse if you do this
At least fairly recently it was possible to remove pulse and have things still work on gnome/debian for 
instance, do not know if anythind has changed in
gnome  that absolutely requires pulse.
At lest a release ago one could still install a pulse free mate desktop, again, not possitive about latest 
stable release.


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Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 08:30:46PM +0200


Hi.
I want to use alsa instead of pulse audio.
I found the following about removing pulse audio. do you Think this will work?
http://www.hecticgeek.com/2012/01/how-to-remove-pulseaudio-use-alsa-ubuntu-linux/
I also found information on hardware monitoring when recording stuff,
and hearing the microphone.
So now it will perhaps be easy to record and do some Linux podcasts.
easier than in windows:)
/Kristoffer
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