* Juha Jäykkä <ju...@iki.fi> [2016-12-18 23:02 +0000]: > > > I think pulseaudio gets started by libasound.so.2 when it parses > > > alsa.conf.d because pulseaudio has placed the above file there. > > If pulsaudio is installed it runs as a per user session by default. > > I think you might have misunderstood the problem. Disabling pulseaudio's > autospawn does not fix the bug, it merely hides it in many circumstances. > > Furthermore, in my case, I actually want to keep autospawn – for those > programs which actually wants to use pulseaudio. But at the same time, I want > > alsamixer -c0 (and a host of other programs) not to mute my mixer.
I think the only chance to run alsamixer without starting pulse is to pulseaudio -k and autospawn pulse. Elimar -- Obviously the human brain works like a computer. Since there are no stupid computers humans can't be stupid. There are just a few running with Windows or even CE ;-)
