init and pulseaudio

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:29 +0100, Chris Rouch wrote:
> On 1/20/08, Reik Red <reikred at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why would the command
> >
> >      /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start
> >
> >  work, whereas the command
> >
> >      service pulseaudio start
> >
> >  produces an X11 error "XOpenDisplay() failed" as seen below?
> 
> I would guess that in the first case you have write access to the
> display and in the second you don't. In any case, if you run
> pulseaudio as a service  you want to disable x11. The simplest way to
> do this is to remove the pulseaudio-module-x11 rpm.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
I seem to stay confused. /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start and 
service pulseaudio start
are equivalent.

What do you mean by disabling x11. Do you think that the OP was running
these commands at run level 3?