[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#845090: Bug#845090: /usr/bin/alsamixer: alsamixer -c0 starts pulseaudio

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Juha Jäykkä <juhaj at iki.fi> [2016-12-18 23:02 +0000]:

> > > I think pulseaudio gets started by libasound.so.2 when it parses
> > > alsa.conf.d because pulseaudio has placed the above file there.
> > If pulsaudio is installed it runs as a per user session by default.
> 
> I think you might have misunderstood the problem. Disabling pulseaudio's 
> autospawn does not fix the bug, it merely hides it in many circumstances.
> 
> Furthermore, in my case, I actually want to keep autospawn – for those 
> programs which actually wants to use pulseaudio. But at the same time, I want  
> alsamixer -c0 (and a host of other programs) not to mute my mixer.

I think the only chance to run alsamixer without starting pulse is
to pulseaudio -k and autospawn pulse.

Elimar
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