Hi, Steve: If you're still struggling to kill pulseaudio, here's how I do it: become root rm -f /usr/bin/pulseaudio touch /usr/bin/pulseaudio chmod 555 /usr/bin/pulseaudio You still need to monitor that some package update doesn't overwrite /usr/bin/pulseaudio, but this hasn't been a problem for me, and I've used this strategy for a long time. Janina Steve Holmes writes: > I thought I got pulseaudio disabled like I used to but every time I > execute the espeak command or run emacspeak, it keeps using pulseaudio > and killing ALSA until it releases it. Even paplay works but I have > /etc/pulseaudio/default.pa completely commented out and stupid pulse > keeps rering its ugly head. Any other ideas on how to stop it in its > tracks? I could uninstall the pulseaudio package but it is required by > gnome-settings-daemon. > > This is all on a current up to date Arch Linux box. Everything seemed > to be fine until I gave pulseaudio a try yesterday. Now things seem > to be a mess around here. > > Any ideas? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina at rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
