https://zachir.xyz/tags/sound/ Recent content in Sound on ZachIR's Human Den Hugo en-us Copyright © 2021-2022, Zach; all rights reserved. Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500 https://zachir.xyz/tech/210806-fullmetalalsa/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500 https://zachir.xyz/tech/210806-fullmetalalsa/ <h3 id="full-metal-alsa---the-most-minimal-linux-sound-setup">Full Metal ALSA - The Most Minimal Linux Sound Setup</h3> <p>In this post, I am going to tell you how I got &quot;pure ALSA&quot;* working on Artix Linux (I know this will also work on Arch Linux, and assumedly other Arch based distros, for as long as &quot;apulse&quot; and &quot;lib32-apulse&quot; are in the AUR).</p> <p>*: ALSA is the only operational sound server on the system; however, as some applications require Pulseaudio, the command 'apulse' is used as a translation layer, so the applications think they are using pulseaudio, and ALSA behaves in a more friendly way, but it is still just ALSA.</p>