While I guess that I've got much knowledge about Linux audio regarding to audio productions, I think I completely have no knowledge about "desktop audio". I don't trust pulseaudio. I read 1000 times that nowadays pulseaudio definitively can be disabled, but I also read 1001 times that people get rid of a bug by removing the _disabled_ pulseaudio.
All the times when pulseaudio was a hard dependency for a package, I installed an empty dummy package. For Ubuntu and Debian I build dummy packages using equivs. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html Pulseaudio might not be the culprit for the issue you experience, but for troubleshooting I would purge remove it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377412651.13922.34.camel@archlinux