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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #369762
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 369762] [NEW] pulseaudio cannot be removed or disabled

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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Susan Cragin wrote:

> I can work with pulseaudio either removed or suspended, and have tried both.
> My preferred method is purge because I use speech recognition software through wine.
> For a couple of weeks, pulseaudio has not removed itself properly, making all my audio applications -- not just those that run in wine -- misbehave.

There's actually no need to purge any of the pulseaudio packages. Here's
how to disable it from a fresh Jaunty install:

1) Edit /etc/pulse/client.conf, and change "autospawn = yes" to "autospawn
= no"
2) `touch $HOME/.pulse_a11y_nostart'
3) `asoundconf list'
4) choose the desired card from the previous command's output, and use
`asoundconf set-default-card CARD', replacing CARD as appropriate
5) `killall pulseaudio'

I agree that the process is unintuitive.
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