How to turn off pulseaudio in rawhide

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 10/25/2007 07:44 PM, stan wrote:
> I run an app that calls ALSA library functions in order to determine
> sound hardware characteristics and set sound hardware characteristics,
> in particular the hardware supported frame rates.  Since the latest
> updates in Rawhide this breaks with the following error message:
> *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
> cannot open audio device "default" (Connection refused)
> Segmentation fault ( <-- the app generated this)
> 
> I tried using the kill command with pulseaudio but it won't get rid of
> it.  I tried uninstalling pulseaudio, but it still is there.  I went to
> services to disable it, and it isn't there either.  How do I stop it
> correctly? I didn't actually ask to have it run so I'm not sure why it
> is running.
> 
> Can Pulseaudio be configured to allow direct access to ALSA?
> 
> Can it be bypassed to directly access ALSA while it is running or does
> it monopolize the sound system?
> 
> Is this a bug that should be reported upstream?
> 
> Will removing pulseaudio cause any breakages in applications?  i.e. is
> it optional?
> 

it's alsa-plugins-pulseaudio that causes the problem...