Problem I'm having is with Kaffeine and another application that uses SDL sound. I'm using Hardy 8.04.1 LTS
While Kaffeine is running and starting the SDL application I receive this error: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:874:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave I killed the gnome-power-manager and this appeared to be a work around but I was then unable to shut down the system. I then tried killall pulseaudio as suggested earlier and this worked after restarting the Kaffeine application. I wanted a method to disable pulseaudio from starting up, so I tried: $ sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio stop This did not appear to do anything and disabling in BootUp-Manager also does not appear to help. It appears that pulseaudio is run as a user and not as a root daemon. I ended up with a simple work around (for now) by renaming the pulse audio file to something else and restarted my system. As expected the login prompt tune worked (root level) but logging in as a user the System sounds are no longer heard but my other sound applications seem be working for now. $ sudo mv /usr/bin/pulseaudio /usr/bin/pulseaudio-renamed Can pulseaudio be disabled altogether in the system, if so how? -- Pulseaudio is blocking normal sound after resume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202089 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
