Richard Creighton wrote:
On Thu March 12 2009 4:24:22 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
That's precisely what I have been saying all along: pulseaudio is designed that way. There is a library you can not remove, and if you try it will remove the desktop, and there is the big rest which you can remove.
That really says that that DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT or environment(S) if there are more than one, are at fault if the DEs depend on a single audio library package so intimately that the DE will fail completely to the point of removal if PA is removed completely especially given there are alternative audio environments available in the system for any DE to use. This is not actually a problem with PA, but with the respective DE(s).
You are not understanding. You can remove ALL of PA, except a small library, libpulse0. Half a megabyte! There is no problem at all with those desktops.
Sigh... That has not been my experience. I removed pulse except that library and
Carlos E. R. wrote: the sound won't work on my laptop unless I do rcalsasound restart. BTW, I have tried VLC as suggested by another person and that too did not work. Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org