Achieve Zen with openSUSE 11.0 (i.e Get rid of pulse audio)
I’ve been having a lot of stability issues with openSUSE 11.0 lately and the majority of them boiled down to audio.
Here is a list of a few:
1. VLC required root to have audio, wtf?
2. Sound would crash after listening to any audio for an extended period of time (music, video, flash).
3. If my audio crashed, Firefox could not start up until I did rcalsasound restart
4. Some videos were slow/choppy.
So, you are probably asking, how did I fix all these issues?
zypper rm alsa-plugins-pulse
zypper addlock alsa-plugins-pulse
This removes the alsa plugin for pulse and locks it so it will never install again. Without the alsa plugin installed, the apps go back to using alsa directly. This has fixed every issue I’ve had with openSUSE 11.0 so far.