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How to disable PulseAudio and use only ALSA?

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi. I wrote some time ago about my problems with sound in PulseAudio. I decited to remove it, and use only ALSA like I was few months ago (I think). Currently in alsamixer I have only "PulseAudio" master volume, before that I had more sliders. But... how to remove PulseAudio? Pacman says, that gnome-settings-daemon depends on pulseaudio. How can I disable it? I know that I may shut down pulseaudio daemon, but then I have no sound at all. ciembor https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=15634 2012-09-10T13:39:25Z (HowTos)

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toni https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=53287

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