Sound problems in Squeeze

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 05:44:01PM -0500, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> Do you have any pulseaudio packages installed (or were dragged in as
> dependencies)? Sometimes pulseaudio and alsa can step on each other in
> strange ways.

Alsa talks to hardware, pulseaudio talks to alsa.

Pulse audio sometimes gets in the way of programs that expect to talk
to alsa directly, but other than that they can not step on each other
since one essentially uses the other.

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Len Sorensen
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