On Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:10:24 +0000, mar77i via arch-general wrote:
On Monday, January 6, 2020 6:55 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
[...] I read about a nopulse package on the arch bbs site in messages but couldn't find that on aur so decided to do some edits on the pulse configuration files. [...]
I used to use `apulse`, a minimal layer that worked at least to have audio in firefox and other pulse-only applications. Once I wanted to activate my microphone in firefox, though, this setup did no longer work. I since installed pulse on my work laptop, while staying on alsa on my personal setups.
Hi, apulse does not help to get rid of pulseaudio dependencies, you still need a pulseaudio dummy package or to disable pulseaudio. It could be helpful to use apps that require pulseaudio for audio, if pulseaudio isn't installed. I've got apulse installed, but stopped using it a while ago, since it doesn't works without hiccups. Btw. firefox from the extra repository is build with alsa and jack enabled and doesn't require pulseaudio or apulse at all. [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ grep Features -A2 firefox/repos/extra-x86_64/PKGBUILD # Features ac_add_options --enable-alsa ac_add_options --enable-jack Unfortunately firefox with jack and alsa support suffers from hiccups, too. It's better to run google-chrome, since it doesn't suffer from audio hiccups when using it with plain alsa. I don't know if a "nopulse" package does exist. Assuming there should be a "nopulse" package available, what does it provide? Regards, Ralf