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Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

From Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone
Date 2019-06-04 22:00 +0200
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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.

If you don't care about that, then you can certainly play music,
record audio, and otherwise do normal audio-related things
through ALSA.

-dsr-

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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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