On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 03:18:36 +1100, Andrew wrote in message
<a706c6cd-4dd7-e699-b850-f10f5579d13d@???>:

> Hi,
>
> On 17/1/19 2:51 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > ..we've heard of firefox dropping alsa etc for pulseaudio on behalf
> > of the Tor/torbrowser people or the systemd people and since
> > pulseaudio tried a "government shutdown", on _my_ iron, I did to
> > pulseaudio what you yanks should try on your own putinist regime, a
> > Great Purge with Stalinist Firmness. ;o)
>
> Okay, not what you were after, but what about this?
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_as_a_minimal_unintrusive_dumb_pipe_to_ALSA

..thanks, has anyone tried these config ideas with apulse?

..I have chromium 71.0.3578.80-1~deb9u1 and firefox-esr
60.4.0esr-1~deb9u1 playing youtube videos on alsa, and
I'm in no mood to give up on apulse etc alternatives to
pötterware.

..apulse needs tweaks, maybe config setup packages for our own
versions of alsaconfig, apulse and pulseaudio_15.0-13+devuan3?


..alsa-config was thrown out of Debian on alleged problems,
according to zcat /usr/share/doc/alsa-utils/NEWS.Debian.gz:
"alsa-utils (1.0.19-1) unstable; urgency=low

This upload removes alsaconf and asoundconf, two scripts which
could be used to modify certain ALSA parametres, as they caused
more problems than provided solutions, were outdated and generally
useless.

alsaconf was upstream's way to detect sound cards and generate
system-wide ALSA configurations. However, this should have been
unnecessary for a very long time, with the introduction of udev
support and its automatic hardware detection. If this isn't the
case for you, it's a bug which should be filed and fixed properly.

asoundconf was a tool introduced by Ubuntu which could be used to
generate asoundrc files for systems with special needs. The script
was not being maintained and was getting buggy, and the Debian and
Ubuntu teams have agreed to get rid of it for the next release. Users
can use Pulse or similar technologies to configure their preferred
sound devices and sinks.

-- Jordi Mallach <jordi@???> Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:53:02 +0100"

..quickest way to further context is scroll all the way down
zless /usr/share/doc/libpulse0/changelog.Debian.gz and "read
up" to get things in their alleged chronological sequence...


> If it does what I think it does, then you can use Alsa in place of
> pulseaudio and do so transparently.

..I do use alsa on everything AFAIK, it's _only_ the torbrowser
that wails for pulseaudio for me now.

> Is that any good, does it do what you need and stop you needing
> pulseaudio?

..we'll see, it is an option I'm able to use now, if everything else
fails me.

> Cheers
> A.
>


--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.