From my limited experience with pulseaudio on a machine without X, it seems that anything that has native pulse support in it will automatically start pulse on demand anyways.
2010/12/1 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:09 -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Sander Jansen <s.jansen@gmail.com> wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if pulseaudio is installed, I believe you should be able to prevent it from starting by removing the dbus activation files:
etc/xdg/ etc/xdg/autostart/ etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop
(unless pulse has some other way of auto-starting the daemon)
You will also need to uncomment and deactivate the autospawn option in /etc/pulse/client.conf.
since i recently blew up my computer "accidentally on purpose"[1]... i decided to try this since i said i would and so many others to had success. [1] me==smart. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg07193.html
Ouch. Hope you didn't lose anything too important.
works perfectly under a fresh install, e17 desktop; nice w3rk! i'm liking it quite a bit... sharing/sending sound to other machines is a pretty neat trick; maybe i can set it up under my local headless KVM server and send music/etc to my or my fiancé's laptops... or both... cool.
Yeah, linux users are like goldfish, we don't need anything until we actually try it out and realize is pretty cool =). I'm using PA-specific features almost as much as I use audio on this machine.