Re: To pulse or not to pulse?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:40:46AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Raffaele Morelli
> <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Have a try with ALSA+Jack (qjackctl gui) and use vlc phonon backend for KDE4
> > (gstreamer backend really sucks IMHO).
>
> Phonon is currently set up for vlc.
>
> > If you plan to use non-alsa compliant applications some tweaks may be needed
> > but it's worth trying.
> >
> > -- No need to remove PA, just stop it. --
>
> When I try to in the traditional way, I get:
>
> [defiant /home/storm]# /etc/init.d/pulseaudio stop
> [warn] PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions ... (warning).
>
> And the process is still running:
>
> [defiant /home/storm]# ps auxww | grep pulse
> storm 4756 0.0 0.0 319820 6700 ? S<l Jul09 5:54
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>
This is because pulseaudio is running as your user, and not as a daemon.
See /etc/default/pulseaudio -- you probably have
PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=0
Just run 'killall pulseaudio' as your regular user.
-Rob
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