Now I can't Keep Pulseaudio From Taking over Everything!

[Steve Holmes]

Yea but, what if you want to use Gnome/Orca? Doesn't gnome require
pulse these days? I got speech dispatcher to run using ALSA
exclusively now and things seem to work ok on my laptop but my desktop
is completely broken now when it comes to using Orca now. I can't seem
to tell what may be different on one machine than the other but I have
speech dispatcher configured identically on both systems. I also had
the same basic problem when I try to run Orca from git master and
compile myself.

But this is the speakup list and not Orca and I'm glad that speakup is
still solid as ever.

On 5/10/13, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> Hi, Steve:
>
> If you're still struggling to kill pulseaudio, here's how I do it:
>
> become root
> rm -f /usr/bin/pulseaudio
> touch /usr/bin/pulseaudio
> chmod 555 /usr/bin/pulseaudio
>
> You still need to monitor that some package update doesn't overwrite
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio, but this hasn't been a problem for me, and I've
> used this strategy for a long time.
>
> Janina
>
> Steve Holmes writes:
>> I thought I got pulseaudio disabled like I used to but every time I
>> execute the espeak command or run emacspeak, it keeps using pulseaudio
>> and killing ALSA until it releases it.  Even paplay works but I have
>> /etc/pulseaudio/default.pa completely commented out and stupid pulse
>> keeps rering its ugly head.  Any other ideas on how to stop it in its
>> tracks? I could uninstall the pulseaudio package but it is required by
>> gnome-settings-daemon.
>>
>> This is all on a current up to date Arch Linux box.  Everything seemed
>> to be fine until I gave pulseaudio a try yesterday.  Now things seem
>> to be a mess around here.
>>
>> Any ideas?
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