Hi there!
Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon
version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio,
which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I wouldn't
mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play movies,
and I get no sound output in mplayer or VLC. And there are weird side
effects, sometimes playback stops, I have to make it run again by
skipping back and forward. Sometimes videos play much faster than normal.
So I would like to get rid of it. Is this possible? I don't really use
Gnome, but I like to have it to see how it develops. And I wouldn't like
to remove it just because of a sound problem.
Maybe the PulseAudio problem is the same as I had with ALSA, I have two
internal cards, and I had to tell ALSA not to prefer the SPDIF one.
Maybe I have to do the same with PulseAudio, but I do not know how. And
the weird playback effects are spooky, I'd prefer to keep things as they
are, at the moment I'm happy with plain ALSA.
And what is starting the pulseaudio process? I can kill it, but it comes
back the next time I run mplayer. Is there a way to just disable it?
Wonko
