[arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

[Ng Oon-Ee]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Sander Jansen <s.jansen at 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.