f9 without pulseaudio.

[Andrea]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Reg Clemens <reg at dwf.com> wrote:
>> I keep reading comments on this list that one can remove pulseaudio
>> from f9 and it will run like a normal alsa system.
>>
>> I have removed
>>        alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>>    and libflashsupport
>>
>> from my f9 system, rebooted.
>> Sound in Flash in Firefox works just fine, but aplay doesn't.
>> If aplay doesn't work I wonder about mplayer, totem, and the other sound
>> producing programs that I havent tested.
>>
>> So, is there anything else I should be removing to get back to
>> 'just alsa' ????
>>
>> I would really like to understand what is going on here.
> 
> 
> It was very easy for me, here is the relevant portion of my yum.log
> from when i removed it:
> Sep 20 02:09:44 Erased: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
> Sep 20 02:09:44 Erased: pulseaudio-module-x11
> Sep 20 02:09:44 Erased: pulseaudio
> Sep 20 02:09:49 Erased: pulseaudio-module-zeroconf
> Sep 20 02:09:49 Erased: pulseaudio-module-gconf
> Sep 20 02:09:50 Erased: kde-settings-pulseaudio
> Sep 20 02:09:50 Erased: pulseaudio-esound-compat
> 
> 
> 
Is it possible to just disable pulseaudio, rather then removing it.
I would like to disable it when I use ekiga, but otherwise I am happy with it.

Cheers