Hi all,
although pulseaudio wasn't causing the problem I was having with this particular instrument, when I run "top" or "htop" in the terminal, pulseaudio is always near the top of the list of threads, even though I have never used it. So I did uninstall it (remove rather than purge) and things still work fine as far as I have seen so far. Although I don't use pulseaudio and I don't know it very well, I have read from many people who use linux for audio production that alsa and jack are the preferred systems. It would be nice if Jack would connect to Firefox automatically; as things are right now it doesn't (afaik) without a specific "flash-to-jack" file that I have used on another pc but not the current installation. (I don't think it's in the ubuntustudio repos either..) Or maybe there are other, better ways to connect Jack to a web browser, I don't know. Perhaps it's the web browsers' responsability to allow connection to Jack..? brian On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 07:40:04 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 06:25:11 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >> >>> any desktop application that requires pulse will not hang or fail >> Hi Len, what app does hang or fail, if the pulseaudio package is removed or replaced by a dummy package? I'm not aware of any app and I don't see a reason to have pulseaudio installed, if a user doesn't want to use it. IIUC the OP doesn't use pulseaudio at all. On my Linux installs I never experienced an issue with pulseaudio removed or replaced by a dummy package. I never used pulseaudio. > > The OP was guessing that pulse caused problems, not sure. So the best > thing to do is check first before doing surgery. A few commandline checks > will confirm if PA is really the problem or something else. > > Desktop applications that use audio will hang or just stop and wait for > audio if the device is blocked by jack unless an alternate route is set > up. If the user understands this, it is not a problem, most don't. Not > that many years ago, linux was a one audio use at a time and users > understood that, but most expect audio to interleave like other OS do > any more. > > I am well aware that you do not use pulse and will look for any oportunity > to suggest others remove it too. You are welcome to support all those who > choose to remove pulse. :) However, most of us barely have time to > support things as they are without also supporting Fankenstien setups. > > -- > Len Ovens > www.ovenwerks.net [1] Links: ------ [1] http://www.ovenwerks.net
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