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saty

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Registered: 2012-10-06

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How to disable pulseaudio?

I had to install pulseaudio without actually intending to use it as a dependency for spice-gtk. I'm not sure if it's only a build dependency but that's for another topic.

I'm using KDE only with gstreamer backend. I found this topic on the issue, but the proposed fix - editing /etc/pulse/client.conf didn't have any effect.
I'll be happy to provide any additional information that may be necessary.

Fast EDIT:

This probably had to go in the multimedia forum section. I'll appreciate if someone can move it there. Sorry for the troubles.

Last edited by saty (2012-10-24 17:01:26)

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 753

Re: How to disable pulseaudio?

Are you in fact claiming that spice-gtk doesn't require pulseaudio to work?
If so, replace pulseaudio with libpulse in dependancies, and rebuild the package...

Last edited by Xabre (2012-10-24 23:38:15)

ewaller

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Re: How to disable pulseaudio?

Fast EDIT:

This probably had to go in the multimedia forum section. I'll appreciate if someone can move it there. Sorry for the troubles.

Done

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saty

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Registered: 2012-10-06

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Re: How to disable pulseaudio?

Are you in fact claiming that spice-gtk doesn't require pulseaudio to work?
If so, replace pulseaudio with libpulse in dependancies, and rebuild the package...

Not at all. I'm not even sure exactly what spice-gtk does.

Done

Thanks.

Am I really stuck with pulseaudio if I want spice-gtk?
I'm actually coming from opensuse and remember having some yast trickery there to leave pulse installed but not having it started.
Is infact having "autospawn = no" the way this is supposed to be done?

Last edited by saty (2012-10-25 04:56:10)

ngoonee

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Re: How to disable pulseaudio?

Am I really stuck with pulseaudio if I want spice-gtk?

Your question is about pulseaudio, and to be disabled it needs edits in several places (not just autospawn=no) I believe. A google will tell you how, I've never done it.

However, the more pertinent and basic question is, why spice-gtk? What's wrong with spice?

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ZekeSulastin

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Re: How to disable pulseaudio?

I would at least try to just rebuild it with only libpulse available and see what happens.  Additionally, go into a copy of the extracted source (makepkg -o can help) and run ./configure --help - there may be a --disable-pulseaudio option or some such you can pass in the PKGBUILD, thereby allowing you to remove any pulse-based dependencies.

Last edited by ZekeSulastin (2012-10-25 07:59:47)

saty

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Registered: 2012-10-06

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Re: How to disable pulseaudio?

Thanks for the replies.

All started from this thread - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151231. With only spice installed virt-manager didn't work with SPICE display.

I'll mess around with the whole issue some more and see what happens. I thought the less painful way will be to leave pulseaudio and just not use it, but I might have better ways to deal with it.

Most of the stuff I found when I first looked into this is gnome related. I suppose with kde the process should be somewhat simpler.

Last edited by saty (2012-10-25 14:37:01)