Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

Did anybody already recommend to install a dummy package? I switched to
Arch Linux, but I had Debian testing with GNOME3 and Xfce and everything
was ok, when I replaced libcanberra-pulse and pulseaudio by dummy
packages. I suspect only replacing pulseaudio should be all that's
needed, can't remember why I replaced libcanberra-pulse too.

On Debian and Ubuntu dummy packages easily can be build by using equivs.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html

I needed to replace PA to get audio working. Serious audio work often
isn't possible if PA is installed.

If you just want to get rid of the CPU usage, you can test what happens
if you stop PA by running

pulseaudio --kill

- Ralf