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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please?
From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
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On 8 May 2012, at 00:53, walt wrote:
> =85=20
> After removing alsasound from /etc/runlevels/* (it was in only one =
level
> but I can't remember now which one it was ;) I rebooted.
>=20
> I use startx, so right after a reboot there is no X session running =
yet,
> and to my astonishment I find that pulseaudio is already running:
>=20
> 1987 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start =
--log-target=3Dsyslog
> 1991 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
>=20
> I haven't spent any time trying to discover who is starting pulseaudio
> behind my back, but it at least reminds me to ask if you are also =
using
> it on your machine.

Ah! My apologies!=20

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.

So I'm only interested in the experiences of people running only ALSA =
(no Pulse).

Stroller.