Where is pulseaudio started?

[Steven W. Orr]

On 08/26/09 15:21, quoth Rick Stevens:
> Steven W. Orr wrote:
>> On 08/26/09 13:03, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan:
>>> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 09:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>>>> stan wrote:
>>>>> If you are using the default Fedora setup, you have your own
>>>>> version of
>>>>> pulse started when you log in.  I notice that it also can be
>>>>> started by
>>>>> programs that need its services, and that seems to be gconf-helper.
>>>> Isn't "autospawn" activated by default in /etc/pulse/client.conf?
>>>> That means you can have pulseaudio started by who knows what.
>>> I don't think so.  On my system (Fedora-11 vanilla) autospawn is
>>> commented out.
>>>
>>> jon
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ok. Why do you think it's commented out?
>>
>> I'm looking at my copy and the comments in the top of the file begin
>> with a
>> #sign but the config lines begin with a semi;colon. So right now I
>> have no
>> idea what's a comment and what's required syntax.
>>
>> Can pulseaudio be simply shut OFF? This thing really stinks.
> 
> It works for most people, Steven.  Some people (myself included) have
> had issues with it, but that doesn't mean it "really stinks."

You're right. I apologize. I'm sure that for some people it might smell like
roses. For some people it may be consuming huge amounts of disk space and
system resources and they might not even be aware of it. And yet this thing
that really stinks for me has been doing its thing for over 1.5 years
generating ~50M syslog entries per week.

Unfortunately, I am running KDE-4.2.4 and if there's a way to shut the little
stinker off, I'd be grateful to know how.

I'm not running a laptop. This is my personal home server. It's where I do all
my work and run public server stuff. email, web, sshd, etc.

I have no idea what it is that pulseaudio is supposed to actually do that I'm
supposed to like about it. I used to have sound. I still have sound. (Not
everyone can say that I guess.) But with the syslog thrashing at 50Meg/week
and the processes usually sitting at 10% of the cpu just from pulseaudio, I,
sincerely, would really like to shut the stinker off. I wish everyone else in
the world the very best and that if other people are not having problems then
they should continue to not have problems. No one has suggested anything to me
to help me fix it and now I'm asking if there's a way to shut the thing off.
rpm -ql was of no help. And when it comes to kde-4.2, I love it but it's not
all that intuitive a system when it comes to making mods.

Please find it in your hearts to dig into your wallets. All I ask is for
$30,000 to help me buy the DeLuxe Executive Version of PulseAudio The Gold
Edition. I promise that when the free version gets better I will re-enable it
and tell everyone how wonderful it is. Or please tell me how to shut it off.

Thanks. :-)

> 
> It's started in your session.  If you're using Gnome, go to
> 
>     System->Preferences->Startup Applications
> 
> and scroll down the list.  You can uncheck the box next to "PulseAudio
> Sound System" to not have it start up, or delete it entirely.  There's
> undoubtedly a similar thing for KDE, but since I'm not a KDE user, I
> don't know where it is.  Someone else want to chime in?

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