How do I completely disable pulseaudio?

Hi,

i have just installed openSUSE 11.1, and wish to completely disable
pulseaudio, as it destroys my sound and offers no functional value to me
( KDE 4 self compiled trunk user )

The checkbox in YAST > Hardware > Sound, Advanced > Pulseaudio
Configuration, “Enable pulseaudio” is unchecked, as is the default, yet
every single audio application still starts it >:(

Any ideas? I am considering removing the pulseaudio Xine plugin.


Ben_Cook2

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Try removing alsa-plugins-pulse.


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I also removed libxine1-pulse, since I use xine from packman.

Amarok now plays my music undistorted ( accelerated beginning ) and I
do not have pulseaudio using 5% of my CPU just to play a song through
amarok.

Thanks.


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Thanks for the hint! I had following problem: after starting or ending
KDE 4.1.3 (opensuse 11.1) the loudspeakers made a clicking noise :.
After removing the alsa-plugin-pulse and libxine1-pulse everything is
fine :).

Greetings

Michael


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Hi,

I was to fast;), the ulgy click noise (I think this click noise is not
good for my laptop boxes) is still there >:(.

Greetings

Michael


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Hi,

I found out the reason for the ugly click noise: It only occurs when
the laptop (Dell Precision M4400) runs with battery. If the notebook is
on the power line everything is fine! Hence, the powermanagment is the
reason for the problem.
Greetings

Michael


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In openSUSE 11.0 or 10.3 I had problems with due to pulseaudio:
no sound in flash (=no youtube). Now with every fresh installation
I try to completely remove all pulseaudio packages.

I wonder why is it needed at all?
I think it should be useful for some tasks or …?


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Same problem here. Playing videofiles using pulseaudio in the xine
plugin I get a lot of sound droppings. Setting the xineplugin (using the
kaffeine configuration dialogs) to alsa everything works like a charme
again. I think there is something wrong with the pulseaudio programm.

cu
Gargi


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For the gnome users, some useful pulse audio utilities are:


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