> > Pardon for my question. Do you really need the advantages of PA for your > > kind of audio usage? > > For the way I'm using PA it don't has an advantage, but is a PITA only, > ^^ audio > > hence I never install it. does every single question about pulseaudio really need to be confronted with a holy war against pulseaudio? sheesh... Please, if you're not going to address the question, let it rest. Apologies for the noise. > > I use pulseaudio on my laptop. I start it by > > `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a > > standalone wm with lxdm). When I resume from pm-suspend, the > > system beeper issues several beeps; when I open a urxvt, a bash > > completion failure will issue a beep too. However when any > > program that talks to pulseaudio starts (or try again to talk to > > it), e.g. start pavucontrol, everything is normal again. what does lsof /dev/snd/* say when you resme from pm-suspend? == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.