pulseaudio tools depend on avahi-daemon
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| padevchooser (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: padevchooser
Hi,
the current ubuntu audio device tools cause me lots of headache. Where older ubuntu versions where working well with ALSA, I now have trouble with adjusting the volume. Tools like alsamixer just display two mixers for a "pulseaudio" soundcard. I did not find a way to get rid of it, and I did not find a manual about how to use that properly. It just does not work as expected.
I guess I need packages like padevchooser and pavucontrol, but for some weird reason these packages depend on avahi-daemon, which I was happy to throw out of my system, because it slows down and is a security problem.
Unfortunately, ubuntu is going a way into a bad direction, where dependencies mess up a system and dictate a complexity cause trouble, high system loads and security problems.
Is there any good reason why I should need useless things like avahi just to adjust the volume of the speakers?
regards
| p2 (p2000000000) wrote | #1 |
I have the same problem(s), besides theres is no easy way to add/remove pulseaudio or reconfigure it. pulseaudio play sounds in variable speed , and in low quality ,sometimes with hiss on my machine, there is no easy way of getting rid of pulseaudio and using pure ALSA, and say programs to use it and if you want to come back to pulseaudio there is no easy/automatic way to install pulseaudio and configure it. I think it should by as easy as "sudo aptittude install pulseaudio" or "dpke-reconfigure pulseaudio" or something like that. but doing this won't make a good configuration you should go to config files and read some HOWTOs to do that , I wasn't successful even with them.