On Fri 09 Mar 2012 11:45 +0000, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM, XeCycle <xecy...@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.
