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lucmove 04-22-2015 05:01 PM
How do I get rid of pulseaudio?
 
I just migrated from Wheezy to Jessie. To my horror, it uses pulseaudio. It's just as horrible as usual: volume is quiet, sound has less "texture" and the mixer has only two faders: in and out. How do I get rid of it and use just good old ALSA?

I shut it down and now I have no sound at all. Then I uninstalled these packages:

pulseaudio
pulseaudio-module-x11
pulseaudio-utils
libpulsedsp

OK. It's out, by ALSA still doesn't work. What can I do?

jim_p 04-23-2015 12:51 PM
Open alsamixer and raise the levels you want.

lucmove 04-23-2015 01:13 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim_p (Post 5351989)
Open alsamixer and raise the levels you want.
I said: "the mixer has only two faders: in and out"

That should clue you in that I have enough IQ to access alsamixer and adjust levels, like any average monkey.

Anyway, I fixed the problem about an hour ago.

TobiSGD 04-23-2015 02:34 PM
Please be so kind and post your solution, so that others with the same problem can benefit from it.

lucmove 04-23-2015 06:50 PM
I would love to share my solution, but I don't know what that was. I just kept tweaking, enabling and disabling stuff until it worked, I don't know why/how it did. Sorry about that. I wish I knew, too.

itoffshore 05-12-2015 10:45 PM
How to actually get ALSA working in Debian Jessie
 
Today I installed Jessie starting from just a base-install (no desktop)

After installing XFCE to get ALSA working I:
Code:
apt-get install pulseaudio
apt-get remove pulseaudio
apt-get install gstreamer1.0-alsa alsa-utils
apt-get autoremove
& then unmuted the controls in
Code:
alsamixer
Now just to replace systemd with openrc....


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