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neck the system at the storage device.
==== Kill Pulseaudio ====
The default setup from boot of Slackware Live DAW has pulseaudio running and available to the JACK server. Having pulseaudio enabled is useful for getting audio out of programs that connect to pulseaudio instead of JACK (like a browser). However, if you
ap**s** or at least it worked this way for me for pulseaudio-7.0
* You might want to improve this great arti... ouno seems discontinued
* Slackware current has PulseAudio (and so will have 14.2). Might worth to tell it a
Troubleshooting =====
==== Sound does not work (pulseaudio) ====
Slackware-14.2 switched to pulseaudio; if pulseaudio is not working as expected sound may not work in steam. The following fix could be tried if so
ith a Headline (see button bar above). -->
====== PulseAudio Rationale ======
With the release of the first beta of what will be version 14.2, PulseAudio has been introduced as default audio server in Sl... A plugin for audio output, making the presence of PulseAudio mandatory for playing any audio coming from Bluet... branch had dropped ALSA support and now
required PulseAudio. So with some trepidation, we began investigating
====== PulseAudio ======
PulseAudio is a sound server running on top of some other sound system, usually ALSA. The original pu... tware mixing and transmit sound over network. Now PulseAudio is more than that, but it came at cost of increas... programs (cough, Skype v4.3+, cough) that require PulseAudio in order to have working sound. There is a projec
ning "pure alsa" and not systems that are running pulseaudio. Using the default installs, 14.2 and newer will have pulseaudio and many of the issues below can be fixed by runn
uez 5.40 package says that it is not dependent on pulseaudio, and the Bluez website also does not indicate that pulseaudio is necessary. Perhaps a revision of the Rational... be rebuilt instead of removed? (with ''--disable-pulseaudio'' flag)
Also I was able to rebuild ''kmix'' with
