f9 without pulseaudio.

[john wendel]

Reg Clemens wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Reg Clemens <reg at dwf.com> wrote:
>>> I keep reading comments on this list that one can remove pulseaudio
>>> from f9 and it will run like a normal alsa system.
>>>
>>> I have removed
>>>        alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>>>    and libflashsupport
>>>
>>> from my f9 system, rebooted.
>>> Sound in Flash in Firefox works just fine, but aplay doesn't.
>>> If aplay doesn't work I wonder about mplayer, totem, and the other sound
>>> producing programs that I havent tested.
>>>
>>> So, is there anything else I should be removing to get back to
>>> 'just alsa' ????
>>>
>>> I would really like to understand what is going on here.
>>
>> It was very easy for me, here is the relevant portion of my yum.log
>> from when i removed it:
>> Sep 20 02:09:44 Erased: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>> Sep 20 02:09:44 Erased: pulseaudio-module-x11
>> Sep 20 02:09:44 Erased: pulseaudio
>> Sep 20 02:09:49 Erased: pulseaudio-module-zeroconf
>> Sep 20 02:09:49 Erased: pulseaudio-module-gconf
>> Sep 20 02:09:50 Erased: kde-settings-pulseaudio
>> Sep 20 02:09:50 Erased: pulseaudio-esound-compat
>>
> 
> Thanks, I should have thought of that.
> I already had a 'rpm -qa | sort > rpms.list.f9' that I could have
> looked at...
> 
> In any case, I removed all the modules I found in the above list, 
> rebooted, and as ME, I have no audio in either aplay nor firefox.
> Doing a su and trying again, I have audio both places, so it seems
> that there is still a permission problem somewhere.
> 
> Here is the output from aplay
> 
> [reg at deneb AU]$ aplay wheee.au
> 
> ---
> 
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such fi
> le or directory
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or
>  directory
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or 
> directory
> ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2184:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> aplay: main:583: audio open error: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> Any further thoughts???
> If I could get some sound working, I could move to f9.
> 

I'm sure that there is a "proper" way to do it, but I just put the 
following in rc.local and sound works :

cd /dev/snd
chmod 666 *

Regards,

John