[arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

[Loui Chang]

On Fri 09 Mar 2012 11:45 +0000, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM, XeCycle <xecycle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I use pulseaudio on my laptop.  I start it by
> > `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a
> > standalone wm with lxdm).  When I resume from pm-suspend, the
> > system beeper issues several beeps; when I open a urxvt, a bash
> > completion failure will issue a beep too.  However when any
> > program that talks to pulseaudio starts (or try again to talk to
> > it), e.g. start pavucontrol, everything is normal again.
>
> My guess is that what happens is that pulseaudio blocks the sound
> device, and that's the reason you don't hear the beep when it is
> running (i.e. when sounds play). Disabling PA as Ralf suggests would
> in this case not help at all, and likely just make it worse (I wish
> people would stop suggesting to disable PA regardless of what the
> problem is, in most cases this is not going to make things easier).

I'm confused. Why is pulseaudio so necessary? I just use alsa for sound
and have no problems whatsoever. Granted, I don't use one of them fancy
shmancy desktop environments.