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Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

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On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 11:17 +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400
> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 
> > Kaj Persson wrote: 
> > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the
> > > Pulseaudio is
> > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor.
> > > Which
> > > is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting
> > > Alsa be
> > > the one and only audio system? Are there any serious
> > > disadvantages
> > > doing so?
> > 
> > There is one serious disadvantage: Firefox doesn't support audio
> > in any other way except PulseAudio.
> 
> is that actually true? Here I can watch videos on yt or vimeo for
> example
> in firefox with sound perfectly intact without pulseaudio installed.
> In which situations does sound in ff not work?

Hmm, I just uninstalled PulseAudio and Firefox audio still works, so I
guess Debian are still enabling ALSA in their builds. As others have
pointed out, this is likely to not be the case in the long run.

Think I may have installed PulseAudio as an effort to get Google
Hangouts video chat working in the Chromium browser. Just tried that
and with ALSA, I can't seem to get it to use headphones even when they
are selected explicitly by name.

-- 
Tixy

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Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Kaj Persson <70147persson@telia.com> - 2019-06-04 21:30 +0200
  Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-06-04 22:00 +0200
    Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Joe Dennigan <general@jdenn.fastmail.fm> - 2019-06-05 00:10 +0200
      Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Kaj Persson <70147persson@telia.com> - 2019-06-06 00:30 +0200
        Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2019-06-06 00:40 +0200
    Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2019-06-05 11:30 +0200
      Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-06-05 11:40 +0200
        Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2019-06-05 12:20 +0200
          Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-06-05 14:30 +0200
            Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-05 14:40 +0200
              Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-05 15:40 +0200
              Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-06-05 20:20 +0200
            Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-05 14:40 +0200
      Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-06-05 12:00 +0200
  Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2019-06-04 22:20 +0200
    Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone humbert.olivier.1@free.fr - 2019-06-04 23:00 +0200
      Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-06-05 00:30 +0200
        Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone humbert.olivier.1@free.fr - 2019-06-05 01:30 +0200
          Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-06-05 10:20 +0200
    Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2019-06-04 23:10 +0200
    Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-06-05 08:50 +0200
      Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-05 10:10 +0200
        Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-06-05 10:30 +0200
          Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-06-05 20:10 +0200
    Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-05 10:20 +0200
      Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-05 14:50 +0200
        Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Renato Gallo <renato@aster-lab.com> - 2019-06-05 15:00 +0200
          Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-06-05 20:10 +0200
            Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-05 20:40 +0200
        Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-05 15:40 +0200
    Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2019-06-05 11:30 +0200
      Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-05 11:40 +0200
        Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2019-06-05 12:20 +0200
          Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-05 12:30 +0200
            Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-06-05 14:30 +0200
            Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2019-06-05 20:10 +0200
      Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net> - 2019-06-05 12:50 +0200
  Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk> - 2019-06-05 09:10 +0200

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