Regarding the Debian documentation https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio
Setting "autospawn = no" in /etc/pulse/client.conf has no effect! I did also try cp /etc/pulse/client.conf ~/.config/pulse/ pulseaudio --kill You always have this process "00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no" I tried to delete the configuration in ~/.config/pulse/ without no effect. When you rename /usr/bin/pulseaudio then pulseaudio cannot start but you don't have any sound in KDE! What must be done to get rid of pulseaudio and to get direct sound with ALSA? When you try to remove the package there are to much dependencies: # apt-get purge pulseaudio Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut. Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig Die folgenden Pakete wurden automatisch installiert und werden nicht mehr benötigt: freeglut3 g++-6 gnuradio gnuradio-dev gr-fcdproplus gr-fosphor gr-iqbal gr-osmosdr libairspy0 libairspyhf1 libbladerf1 libboost-atomic1.67-dev libboost-chrono1.67-dev libboost-chrono1.67.0 libboost-date-time-dev libboost-date-time1.67-dev libboost-date-time1.67.0 libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-filesystem1.67-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-program-options1.67-dev libboost-regex1.67.0 libboost-serialization1.67-dev libboost-serialization1.67.0 libboost-system-dev libboost-system1.67-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-test1.67-dev libboost-test1.67.0 libboost-thread-dev libboost-thread1.67-dev libboost-timer1.67.0 libboost1.67-dev libcomedi0 libcppunit-1.14-0 libcppunit-dev libfreesrp0 libglfw3 libgnuradio-analog3.7.13 libgnuradio-atsc3.7.13 libgnuradio-audio3.7.13 libgnuradio-blocks3.7.13 libgnuradio-channels3.7.13 libgnuradio-comedi3.7.13 libgnuradio-digital3.7.13 libgnuradio-dtv3.7.13 libgnuradio-fcd3.7.13 libgnuradio-fcdproplus3.7.11 libgnuradio-fec3.7.13 libgnuradio-fft3.7.13 libgnuradio-filter3.7.13 libgnuradio-fosphor3.7.12 libgnuradio-iqbalance3.7.11 libgnuradio-noaa3.7.13 libgnuradio-osmosdr0.1.4 libgnuradio-pager3.7.13 libgnuradio-pmt3.7.13 libgnuradio-qtgui3.7.13 libgnuradio-runtime3.7.13 libgnuradio-trellis3.7.13 libgnuradio-uhd3.7.13 libgnuradio-video-sdl3.7.13 libgnuradio-vocoder3.7.13 libgnuradio-wavelet3.7.13 libgnuradio-wxgui3.7.13 libgnuradio-zeromq3.7.13 libhackrf0 libhamlib2 libjs-jquery-ui liblimesuite18.06-1 liblog4cpp5-dev liblog4cpp5v5 libmirisdr0 libnorm1 libosmosdr0 libpgm-5.2-0 libpulsedsp libqt4-help libqt4-scripttools libqt4-test libqtassistantclient4 libqwt-qt5-6 librtaudio6 librtlsdr0 libsoapysdr0.6 libsodium23 libstdc++-6-dev libuhd3.13.1 libvolk1-bin libvolk1-dev libvolk1.4 libzmq5 limesuite-udev pkg-config pulseaudio-utils python-cheetah python-cycler python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 python-kiwisolver python-matplotlib python-matplotlib2-data python-networkx python-opengl python-pygraphviz python-pyparsing python-qt4 python-scipy python-subprocess32 python-yaml python-zmq rtkit rtl-sdr soapyosmo-common0.6 soapysdr0.6-module-airspy soapysdr0.6-module-all soapysdr0.6-module-audio soapysdr0.6-module-bladerf soapysdr0.6-module-hackrf soapysdr0.6-module-lms7 soapysdr0.6-module-osmosdr soapysdr0.6-module-redpitaya soapysdr0.6-module-remote soapysdr0.6-module-rtlsdr soapysdr0.6-module-uhd uhd-host
