On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:29:15 +0100, Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu 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.cheers Miller
Pulseaudio respawns itself, unless you've configured it not to. You can
disable it temporarily with the tool pasuspender.
The syntax would be:
pasuspender -- pd