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

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Jun 11 06:51:30 UTC 2011


Ralf Mardorf 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?

My laptop doesn't have PA installed, never did, and audio works. I've 
never been able to make Flash use JACK, though, so I use Download Helper 
in FF to download the YouTube video, then play it through JACK using 
mplayer ...

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