ALSA
Revision as of 19:33, 25 May 2019 by imported>Dalto (Dalto moved page How to use ALSA sound with applications that depend on Pulseaudio to ALSA: Generalize)
Overview
This article describes how to run applications which depend on pulseaudio on systems which only have alsa installed. This is done using apulse which is pulse emulator for alsa.
Install apulse
Install apulse from the AUR using a your preferred package manager or the command:
pamac build apulse
It is built from source so it may take some time to install. Once it is done, create a basic config file using the command:
cp /usr/share/apulse/asoundrc.sample ~/.asoundrc
Using apulse
Using apulse is a simple typing apulse <program> in a terminal. For example:
apulse /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
If all is working, you should now have sound in Firefox without needing pulseaudio