'Twas brillig, and Martin Steigerwald at 10/11/11 13:59 did gyre and gimble: > Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2011 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: >> merkaba:/etc> grep autospawn pulse/client.conf >> autospawn = no >> >> Surprisingly when I do this, a user wide daemon is always autospawned. >> This does not match the option name. I will try this once again after >> sending out this mail, but I tried two times already. > > This is clearly reproducable. > > After a fresh login - no matter whether I use autospawn = no in > /etc/pulse/client.conf or /home/martin/.pulse/client.conf or not at all - > I get: > > martin at merkaba:~> ps aux | grep pulse > pulse 21041 0.1 0.0 217932 5568 ? S<l 14:52 0:00 > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log- > target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=0 > martin 21500 3.6 0.0 302184 6708 ? S<l 14:54 0:00 > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start > martin 21503 0.0 0.0 194600 4264 ? Sl 14:54 0:00 > /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper > martin 21526 0.0 0.0 9776 920 pts/3 S+ 14:54 0:00 grep > pulse Yeah this is kinda a problem with the XDG startup scripts. PA is not being spawned per-se, but rather started at startup via the scripts "start-pulseaudio-*" (there are two) I've tried to bring this subject up a while ago to get it fixed properly, but it's never been quite satisfactorily solved in my opinion. IMO a per-user PA should refuse to start if a system-wide instance is detected, but it does not check this at present. The quick and dirty fix is simply to edit the /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-* scripts and put and "exit 0" near the top. If you want proper device lists in the Phonon configuration, you should also edit your /etc/pulse/system.pa file and put a load-module command for module-device-manager with the do_routing argument. This is what the start-pulseaudio-kde script does, but as you will be preventing this from running with your system-wide daemon, then you will have to set it up manually. HTHs Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
