[artix-general] Does pulseaudio work?

Oscar Campos damnwidget at gmail.com
Mon May 27 02:24:08 EEST 2019


Hi Javier,

Pulseaudio works perfectly in Artix it is well supported by the most widely
used desktop environments and can be used as well with lightweight window
managers like i3. Basically, what we are trying to say with that about
pulseaudio is that, technically it is not part of systemd, Artix is a non
systemd distribution so, technically pulseaudio is supported. Said that,
pulseaudio has been designed and created by the same person that designed
and created systemd and using kind of the same philosophies so use at your
discretion.

Regards.

On Sun, 26 May 2019 at 22:25, Javier via artix-general <
artix-general at artixlinux.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> By reading the FAQ [1], it seems pulseaudio is discouraged, but I'm not
> sure if really discouraged or unsupported at all.  Does it actually work on
> Artix?
>
> For many years I was refusing to use pulseaudio, but then when Firefox
> moved to pulseaudio, and apulse not being able to solve (at least by the
> time FF announced to only support the pulse backend), then I finally got
> into pulse.  I have to recognize that the multiple audio devices support
> through pulse makes life really easy, as opposed to alsa, which makes it
> really cumbersome to manage different audio devices (embedded audio + USB
> audio devices like headsets + ...).
>
> Not that without pulse I can't live, just trying to understand what the
> FAQ means:
>
> >  Q. What about pulseaudio?
> >  A. Technically, pulseaudio is not part of systemd. Use alsa. Or oss4.
>
> I've never explored oss4 to be honest.  From the oss times (prior to
> alsa), it was sort of madness, whether audio worked or not, particularly
> due to devices support.  Then alsa showed up, and made audio generally
> work...  Then pulse, which made things even easier.  I have no clue what
> oss4 brings compared to everything else.  But definitely I liked the way
> pulse made things easier in general.  I guess to me alsa is lacking
> something pulse provides, :).
>
> Greetings !
>
> --
> Javier
>
> [1]  https://artixlinux.org/faq.php
>
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