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

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Right, now I got it. You mean that there is a security hole on the
machines where you don't use the open source (i.e. KMS) drivers. This
is correct.

Thanks for the clarification.

-t