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Old 04-22-2015, 05:01 PM   #1
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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?
 
Old 04-23-2015, 12:51 PM   #2
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Open alsamixer and raise the levels you want.
 
Old 04-23-2015, 01:13 PM   #3
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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.
 
Old 04-23-2015, 02:34 PM   #4
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Please be so kind and post your solution, so that others with the same problem can benefit from it.
 
Old 04-23-2015, 06:50 PM   #5
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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.
 
Old 05-12-2015, 10:45 PM   #6
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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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