On Wed, 25 May 2016 07:56:57 +0200
<emninger@???> wrote:

> Is pulseaudio necessary? As i understand it (and as i remember), it
> shouldn't be needed (in lubuntu at least in former times) it was not
> installed ... (?) But it's a long time i was away from Debian ...

There's no Pulseaudio on my system. So I don't get centralized
individual volume controls for each of my sound sources. Boo hoo hoo
hoo hoo.

When I need to use the Microsoft sabotaged Skype, which requires
Pulseaudio, I run it via apulse instead, and it works just fine. No
reason to use Pulseaudio itself.

IMHO Alsa is sufficient.

Once I built a Manjaro-OpenRC system with no Pulseaudio AND no Alsa.
Just OSS. Worked great, played Youtube videos just fine. I've never
again been able to do that.

SteveT

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