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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please?
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 01:39:36
Message-Id: BF518B38-DC1A-4911-ADB7-1FE6C7359EE2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please? by walt
1 On 8 May 2012, at 00:53, walt wrote:
2 > …
3 > After removing alsasound from /etc/runlevels/* (it was in only one level
4 > but I can't remember now which one it was ;) I rebooted.
5 >
6 > I use startx, so right after a reboot there is no X session running yet,
7 > and to my astonishment I find that pulseaudio is already running:
8 >
9 > 1987 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
10 > 1991 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
11 >
12 > I haven't spent any time trying to discover who is starting pulseaudio
13 > behind my back, but it at least reminds me to ask if you are also using
14 > it on your machine.
15
16 Ah! My apologies!
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18 I don't have Pulse installed on this system - I don't object to it, but it's a MythTV box, running a single app at a time, so I don't need it.
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20 So I'm only interested in the experiences of people running only ALSA (no Pulse).
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22 Stroller.