[LAU] Getting rid of PulseAudio issues, while PA isn't installed

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:36 +0100, James Morris wrote:
> On 10 June 2011 11:07, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > for my Debian there's no PA installed, but anyway, when I run jackd and
> > try to get sound for a Youtube video, there's no sound. I need to stop
> > jackd and then I can hear the sound of the video.
> >
> > Some time ago somebody wrote that it should be easy to get rid of PA,
> > while I claimed, that it's hard to do.
> >
> > Yes, getting rid of PA, while it's still impossible to use non-jack
> > applications is easy. Yes, for the browser there might be flash with
> > jackd support, but I would like to have a good old Linux, where I don't
> > need to take care about this Pulseaudio configurations.
> >
> > Is it possible to get rid of any PA issues?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ralf
> 
> As Oon-Ee Ng mentions, it's a jack issue.
> 
> The most basic method which works for me, is creating ~/.asoundrc with
> the following contents:
> 
> ---8<----
> 
> pcm.!default {
>     type plug
>     slave { pcm "jack" }
> }
> 
> pcm.jack {
>     type jack
>     playback_ports {
>         0 alsa_pcm:playback_1
>         1 alsa_pcm:playback_2
>     }
>     capture_ports {
>         0 alsa_pcm:capture_1
>         1 alsa_pcm:capture_2
>     }
> }
> 
> ctl.mixer0 {
>     type hw
>     card 0
> }
> 
> ---8<----
> 
> others might have other methods which might be better or not.
> James.

Thank you very much :)

Ralf