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This page is for those of us that for whatever reason prefer not to have PulseAudio on our systems - or - have to remove PA & use the underlying kernel's native ALSA sound to be able to get working sound on our systems. | This page is for those of us that for whatever reason prefer not to have PulseAudio on our systems - or - have to remove PA & use the underlying kernel's native ALSA sound to be able to get working sound on our systems. | ||
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=Some applications are being created to use PulseAudio only= | ==Some applications are being created to use PulseAudio only== | ||
Due to this PA only situation (which I expect to only get worse), it can be a real pain when we want to use such an application on our ALSA only systems. | Due to this PA only situation (which I expect to only get worse), it can be a real pain when we want to use such an application on our ALSA only systems. | ||
Many of us may have found this out since Firefox version 52.+. has gone PulseAudio only with apparently no chance of that changing in the future. | Many of us may have found this out since Firefox version 52.+. has gone PulseAudio only with apparently no chance of that changing in the future. | ||
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=Fortunately there is a way around this problem that is pleasingly simple= | ==Fortunately there is a way around this problem that is pleasingly simple== | ||
Install '''apulse''' from the AUR. Apulse has only 2 dependencies - '''alsa-lib''' & '''glib2''' , & is also only 141KB in size. | Install '''apulse''' from the AUR. Apulse has only 2 dependencies - '''alsa-lib''' & '''glib2''' , & is also only 141KB in size. | ||
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Enjoy! | Enjoy! | ||
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=Support= | =Support= | ||