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

Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Dec 23 14:35:23 EST 2011


On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:54:35 +0100
Tom Gundersen wrote:

> >                           [...] I have to disable 3d support on some machines,
> > due to the gaping security hole that graphics cards require [...]
> 
> OT:
> 
> Would you care to elaborate on this? What security hole do you have in mind?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom


http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=114233317926101

And equivelent on Linux

http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=47

You can use framebuffer mode or the nouveau driver instead of the
nvidia binary and still run X with RAWIO access disabled but with
limited acceleration.


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