you can try : echo "autospawn=no" >> ~/.pulse/client.conf pulseaudio will not start automatically now, I have not tried this but hope this works. and may be Colin can give you better suggestion. BR Himanshu On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Maystar at web.de <Maystar at web.de> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm running the latest kubuntu version on my machine with pulseaudio > 0.9.22. For log-in I use the standard kdm. Since I've installed mpd, this > daemon starts already while I'm booting the system. This is nice because I > can listen music without log in. Unfortunately mpd starts pulseaudio as the > user mpd and this instance is still running, if I'm logged in with my normal > user account. Because this process blocks my sound card, all my user > processes can't create any sound. So I have to stop mpd or kill the > pulseaudio process of mpd to get my sound back. Both must be done as root > after each boot. This is very inconvenient! Does anyone know a way to kill > mpd's pulseaudio process on login? > > Thank > Fabian > ______________________________**_________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.**freedesktop.org<pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/**mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-**discuss<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20110722/4874a568/attachment.htm>