[arch-general] Muting internal speakers

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 20:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> OSS (obsolete) and ALSA are the instances that are needed for audio.
> Pulse and Jack are "layers".

Sorry for my broken English. You need one of both, the obsolete OSS or
the current used ALSA. Stuff similar to PA and jackd, there were (are)
others too, handle the audio streams in different ways, but usually use
ALSA as backend. Firewire audio devices might be something special.