Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 00:21:31 +0200 Kaj Persson <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > Thank you for all answers and advices. A silly question, perhaps: Do I > need take any special steps for the transform, or is just e.g. > >    apt-get --autoremove remove pulseaudio > > sufficient, and the

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Kaj Persson
On 2019-06-04 at 23:47, Joe Dennigan wrote: Dan Ritter writes: Kaj Persson wrote: I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be t

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 June 2019 02:02:59 pm deloptes wrote: > Renato Gallo wrote: > > I personally use pulse on chrome and firefox without problems of any > > sort > > same here but I'm not using chrome at all. I use from time to time BT > audio and pulse comes handy there. I am not sure if alsa can han

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > As does firefox-esr 60.6.3esr-1 in buster, it seems.  I didn't know about > about:buildconfig before.  Handy. > > I don't know the exact story, but I've heard pieces of it over the last > year or two.  Apparently at one point upstream decided not to support > direct ALSA an

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Renato Gallo wrote: > I personally use pulse on chrome and firefox without problems of any sort same here but I'm not using chrome at all. I use from time to time BT audio and pulse comes handy there. I am not sure if alsa can handle this.

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: >> >> [1] The problem with "modern" is that it carries with itself a value >> judgement, as a stowaway, so to speak. If you ain't "modern", >> you're a luddite or something. That kind of thing makes communication >> hard. It's difficult to listen, with all that shouting. > > Never for

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 12:27:30 +0200 wrote: (...) > What miffs me is that no-one in this thread seems to really care > enough to go check the sources. But then, some still seem to care > enough to go ballistic and complain loudly. > > As I said, I'm happy with my Firefox having no sound (it ha

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 08:34:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:34:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > I hope I am believed when I say that firefox in unstable (67.0.1) has > > --enable-alsa in about:buildconfig. And sound works without pulseaudio. > > As does firefox-esr 60.6

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 08:43:31AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:12:54AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > If you don't care about those things -- or are in for some > > fiddling -- by all means, drop Pulse, and tell us others about > > it! > When I do youtube stuff in

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Renato Gallo
ent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 2:43:31 PM Subject: Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:12:54AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If you don't care about those things -- or are in for some > fiddling -- by all means, drop Pulse, and tell us others about >

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:12:54AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If you don't care about those things -- or are in for some > fiddling -- by all means, drop Pulse, and tell us others about > it! I never installed it to begin with. And my primary browsing has been in google-chrome-stable for qu

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:34:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: > I hope I am believed when I say that firefox in unstable (67.0.1) has > --enable-alsa in about:buildconfig. And sound works without pulseaudio. As does firefox-esr 60.6.3esr-1 in buster, it seems. I didn't know about about:buildconfig befor

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:34:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 05 Jun 2019 at 12:08:00 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 05:38:18 -0400 > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 > > > > > > That was two years ago.

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Jun 2019 at 12:27:30 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Anyone out there care to download the Debian source package and > check what the compile options are? This *must* be visible in the > Debian-specific patches, right? Not necessary. Use about:buildconfig. -- Brian.

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Jun 2019 at 12:08:00 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 05:38:18 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 > > > > That was two years ago. > > yes, I remember the discussions about that, but still here audio in > fi

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:20:58 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: Georgi Naplatanov wrote: If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA device at the same time on your computer. really? Here I can play back a video in firefox and play another video No, I don’t think so. II

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:13:54PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:33:15 +0200 > wrote: > > > > Now don't expect your distro maintainer's to continue indefinitely > > maintaining your firefox's port in a non-standard configuration. > > > > sure, I don't expect anyt

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:33:15 +0200 wrote: > Now don't expect your distro maintainer's to continue indefinitely > maintaining your firefox's port in a non-standard configuration. > sure, I don't expect anything in particular ;) But I believe I can perfectly wait with taking action until it

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 05:38:18 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 > > That was two years ago. yes, I remember the discussions about that, but still here audio in firefox without PA never ceased to work. Actually I always wondered if anyone really t

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 11:17 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Kaj Persson wrote:  > > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the > > > Pulseaudio is > > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Kaj Persson wrote: > > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is > > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which > > > is the best strategy to re

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:20:58AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 22:51:31 +0300 > Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [...] > > If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA > > device at the same time on your computer. > > really? Here I can play back a

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 22:51:31 +0300 Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 6/4/19 10:24 PM, Kaj Persson wrote: > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which > > is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudi

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Kaj Persson wrote: > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which > > is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Joe
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 10:06:23 +0200 wrote: > > [1] The problem with "modern" is that it carries with itself a value >judgement, as a stowaway, so to speak. If you ain't "modern", > you're a luddite or something. That kind of thing makes communication > hard. It's difficult to listen, with all

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: > Depending on your needs. PA is good at resampling easily different audio > flows at different samplerate. Much easily that what one can do with ALSA. > > Olivier Yes and integration with other subsystems like bluetooth and dbus

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:51:31PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [...] > PulseAudio is some kind of mixer/proxy between ALSA and desktop > applications. In modern GNU/Linux OSes it's discouraged to remove/not > using PulseAudio. Because... Reasons. What is a "modern GNU/Linux OS" anyway? This

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 07:40:30AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 22:51 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > [...] > > If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA > > device at the same time on your computer. Even some applications > > support > > PulseAudio only.

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Howard
On 04/06/2019 20:24, Kaj Persson wrote: I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and only audio system? Are there any

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 22:51 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [...] > If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA > device at the same time on your computer. Even some applications > support > PulseAudio only. Like Firefox, that was the reason I relented and installed Pulse

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
> ALSA itself is capable enough that I don't see the point of > an audio server like pulseaudio. Depending on your needs. PA is good at resampling easily different audio flows at different samplerate. Much easily that what one can do with ALSA. Olivier

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
humbert.olivie...@free.fr writes: >> If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use >> an ALSA device at the same time on your computer. > > This is untrue. ALSA provides dmix for mixing different audio flows. > > Olivier What's more, the default device uses dmix. And I find it a

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Joe Dennigan
Dan Ritter writes: > Kaj Persson wrote: >> I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by >> default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the >> best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and >> only audio system? Are

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread John Conover
One thing you might try is to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, and set: flat-volumes = no This will fix most problems with pulseaudio, and alsa will work pretty much as expected. John BTW, automatic volume control was added in Windows 10. This was the era that pulseaudio was developed, an

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
> If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use > an ALSA device at the same time on your computer. This is untrue. ALSA provides dmix for mixing different audio flows. Olivier

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 6/4/19 10:24 PM, Kaj Persson wrote: > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by > default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is > the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the > one and only audio system? PulseAudi

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Dan Ritter
Kaj Persson wrote: > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by > default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the > best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and > only audio system? Are there any serious disadvan

Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Kaj Persson
I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and only audio system? Are there any serious disadvantages doing so? /Kaj