kde 4.2 pulse audio eradicate

[stan]

Minson, John M Mr CTR wrote:
> OK  heres a horse thats been beat a lot
> 
> how do I completely eradicate pulse audio ?
> 
> with out going into lots of ugly details sound only works on amarok and 
> notifications .
> kmplayer using xine or mplayer no sound
> youtube no sound
> 
> 'mukltimedia settings' set to the correct device (SB Live)
> 
> 
Well, rather than uninstall anything and thus create dependency issues, I just go into /etc/alsa and mv 
pulse-default.conf to pulse-default.conf.bak.  That means if I want pulse at some point it is simple to just mv it back 
too.  Occasionally, (after an update?), pulse will start and then I just type pulseaudio --kill and I'm back to alsa.

Primitive, crude, but effective. ;-)

I'm thinking seriously of having two sound devices, one low quality dedicated to pulse and the high quality using only 
alsa.  Then it is just a configuration flip in each application to change which device it uses, and they are isolated 
from each other.  Cheap sound cards are in the 10 to 20 US dollar range and many boards have cheap sound built in.  Low 
cost to avoid a lot of hassle.

YMMV