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

[Jason White]

Steve Holmes  <speakup at linux-speakup.org> wrote:
>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? 

It's probably the default device in your Alsa configuration and you'll have to
revert that change to use Alsa devices directly instead of going through
PulseAudio.

I can't give you specific instructions because the configuration details will
vary somewhat by distribution.