How to turn off pulseaudio in rawhide
Chuck Ebbert
cebbert at redhat.com
Thu Oct 25 23:47:35 UTC 2007
On 10/25/2007 07:44 PM, stan wrote:
> I run an app that calls ALSA library functions in order to determine
> sound hardware characteristics and set sound hardware characteristics,
> in particular the hardware supported frame rates. Since the latest
> updates in Rawhide this breaks with the following error message:
> *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
> cannot open audio device "default" (Connection refused)
> Segmentation fault ( <-- the app generated this)
>
> I tried using the kill command with pulseaudio but it won't get rid of
> it. I tried uninstalling pulseaudio, but it still is there. I went to
> services to disable it, and it isn't there either. How do I stop it
> correctly? I didn't actually ask to have it run so I'm not sure why it
> is running.
>
> Can Pulseaudio be configured to allow direct access to ALSA?
>
> Can it be bypassed to directly access ALSA while it is running or does
> it monopolize the sound system?
>
> Is this a bug that should be reported upstream?
>
> Will removing pulseaudio cause any breakages in applications? i.e. is
> it optional?
>
it's alsa-plugins-pulseaudio that causes the problem...
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