I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

[john wendel]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Steve Underwood wrote:
>> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio.
> 
> Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that PulseAudio is
> evil.
> 
>> Its a very troublesome program with poor documentation, and little output
>> to help you resolve problems. If you get it working it seems to offer you
>> nothing you didn't have before you had pulseaudio.
> 
> It makes sound just work, without apps fighting for the sound device (or
> multiple incompatible sound servers all trying to "fix" this fighting for
> the sound device). No more annoyances like games failing to play sound
> because some GUI event sound was still being played when they tried opening
> the sound device. (I've seen, or rather heard, that happen way too often in
> pre-PulseAudio times.)
> 
> Most sound cards don't do mixing in hardware. A few do support it, but the
> ALSA driver doesn't. Only few sound cards can do it and have ALSA support
> for it. So PulseAudio is a mixing solution which works for everyone.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

Strange, I've never had a sound card that didn't have a hardware mixer. 
And the on-board Intel hd audio that I'm using now does too. I don't 
think PulseAudio is evil, it just doesn't bring anything to the party.

Regards,

John