On Fre, 2013-02-01 at 18:43 +0100, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:
On 02/01/2013 06:29 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Just to comment on why I ended up un-installing portaudio: I booted my Pi with a clean new Raspbian distro, compiled Pd (after installing some packages like git and alsa libs), ran it and found that pulseaudio was running. So I exit Pd and likk pulseaudio via "pulseaudio -kill". Then start Pd and find it _still_ can't open audio. Why? ell, looking back I found that pulseaudio was running again! So I re-killed it and tried a third time. Same result: for some reason, the mere act of starting Pd was causing pulseaudio to start itself up and grab the audio device so that Pd couldn't get it. There are similar plot sequences in old Three Stooges and Marx Brothers movies, but I wasn't exactly laughing. What if I were about to have to walk on stage with this thing? So I googled around and read through the many-page man page for pulseaudio and found no explanation of why this was happening, nor any suggestions for how to disable pulseaudio other than the "-kill" command I had already tried. After a while I lost patience and uninstalled pulse and I suggest that everyone else do so as well.
since i was just playing around with pulseaudio recently, here some hints:
- in /etc/pulse/client.conf, you can set "autospawn = no" to prevent
pulseaudio from starting again and again.
Alternatively, one can put that into ~/.pulse/client.conf which doesn't require root and does not get overwritten by any future package updates.
Roman