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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Juha Jäykkä <juhaj at iki.fi> [2016-11-20 10:12 +0000]:

> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.0.28-1
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/bin/alsamixer
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Running "alsamixer -c0" in order to adjust the ALSA mixer levels causes
> pulseaudio daemon to start. This is not just wrong and unexpected, but
> also causes unwanted side-effects in other programs, like mixer levels
> changing and other programs suddenly defaulting to using pa.

alsamixer doesn't fire up any puls daemon. Please check whether
puls is running before starting alsamixer. 

BTW: do you have more then one soundcard installed? If not just run
alsamixer without any option.

Elimar
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