Thanks, Colin. Item 2 was the on I hadn't found so far. Burkhard <div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/30 Colin Guthrie <<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">'Twas brillig, and Burkhard Stubert at 30/12/09 13:19 did gyre and gimble: <div class="im">> I would like to disable the pulseaudio daemon temporarily. PA runs per > user session. How do I do this? </div>It depends on which distro you use. In Mandriva we have a ticky box in draksound to disable PA. For other distros I don't know. In short the sequence is: 1. Prevent start-pulseaudio-x11 from running at login. 2. Edit /etc/pulse/client.conf to disable auto spawning 3. Remove redirection of ALSA's "default" device to PulseAudio. It's quite an involved task (beyond the above many application defaults may be different for PA vs. non-PA), so YMMV. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)<a href="http://colin.guthr.ie" target="_blank">colin.guthr.ie</a> <a href="http://colin.guthr.ie/" target="_blank">http://colin.guthr.ie/</a> Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [<a href="http://www.tribalogic.net/" target="_blank">http://www.tribalogic.net/</a>] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [<a href="http://www.mandriva.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mandriva.com/</a>] PulseAudio Hacker [<a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</a>] Trac Hacker [<a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/" target="_blank">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a>] _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a> <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>