19 Apr
2010
19 Apr
'10
10:45 a.m.
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 12:23 +0200, Philipp wrote:
I heard from other distros that PA is hard to kill there, and hence it's hard to free the interface for jack, but I don't know whether that's true for Arch.
From what I know the problem here is that the client library will start the local server if it's accessed but not running.
So e.g. while the GNOME volume control is running or every time an application tries to output an alert sound, the PulseAudio server is restarted. Fortunately this is less of a problem with recent PulseAudio versions, as the server will release the ALSA device if it becomes idle.