[arch-general] Is there a clean solution to get completely rid of Pulseaudio?

[Stefan Wilkens]

Pulse recently replaced esound as the dependent sound server for
gnome[1], esound has been marked dead.

You might have some relative success if you drop pulse and do some
per-application configuration to redirect their default output to alsa
or OSS. While this would work for applications such as gstreamer
(gstreamer-properties), pidgin, vlc, mplayer.. you will find yourself
with a broken gnome. You'll need a new mixer application, setup
software mixing (or hardware if your card privides) etc.

You may find life simpler by disabling [2] pulse, rather than removing it.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/PulseAudio
[2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=928817#p928817

2011/12/23 Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org>:
> On 12/23/2011 11:25 AM, Ralf Madorf wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 11:17 +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:
>>> can you clarify that you are talking about pulseaudio and not about
>>> libpulse?
>>
>> # pacman -Rss pulseaudio
>> checking dependencies...
>> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
>> :: gnome-settings-daemon: requires pulseaudio
>> :: pulseaudio-alsa: requires pulseaudio
>>
>>
>>
>
> ok then, gnome requires pulseaudio. The only way to get rid of
> pulseaudio is to get rid of gnome.
>
> --
> Ionuț
>



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