>From my limited experience with pulseaudio on a machine without X, it seems that anything that has native pulse support in it will automatically start pulse on demand anyways. 2010/12/1 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx> > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:09 -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Sander Jansen <s.jansen@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if pulseaudio is installed, I believe you > > >> should be able to prevent it from starting by removing the dbus > > >> activation files: > > >> > > >> etc/xdg/ > > >> etc/xdg/autostart/ > > >> etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop > > >> etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop > > >> > > >> (unless pulse has some other way of auto-starting the daemon) > > > > > > You will also need to uncomment and deactivate the autospawn option in > > > /etc/pulse/client.conf. > > > > since i recently blew up my computer "accidentally on purpose"[1]... i > > decided to try this since i said i would and so many others to had > > success. > > [1] me==smart. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg07193.html > > Ouch. Hope you didn't lose anything too important. > > > > works perfectly under a fresh install, e17 desktop; nice w3rk! i'm > > liking it quite a bit... sharing/sending sound to other machines is a > > pretty neat trick; maybe i can set it up under my local headless KVM > > server and send music/etc to my or my fiancé's laptops... or both... > > cool. > > Yeah, linux users are like goldfish, we don't need anything until we > actually try it out and realize is pretty cool =). I'm using PA-specific > features almost as much as I use audio on this machine. > >
