Re: no native audio translator on hurd-amd64; suggesting pulseaudio in the live-image task

Hi Samuel,

> Have you read the faq?
> https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html
> notably about audio.

Thanks, I went and read the audio entry.

Confirmed: faq/audio.html answers "Is audio supported?" with
"This is pending work" pointing at rumpsound (last updated
2026-02-06). Packaging pulseaudio in the live image does not
move that needle on its own; without a backend below it,
pulseaudio just starts a null sink and nothing else happens.
Withdrawing the live-image ask.

I will reopen this thread once a backend (rumpsound, Damien
Zammit's jack1-hurd PoC on the bug-hurd RFC thread, or
anything else that surfaces) is far enough along that bundling
the userland is actually load-bearing.

Thanks,
Borja Tarraso
[email protected]

El dom, 31 may 2026 a las 12:19, Samuel Thibault
(<[email protected]>) escribi=C3=B3:
>
> Borja Tarraso, le sam. 30 mai 2026 22:20:38 +0300, a ecrit:
> > On Debian GNU/Hurd 0.9 there is no audio surface in the base
> > install:
>
> Have you read the faq?
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html
>
> notably about audio.
>
> Samuel