Turning PulseAudio and Phonon Off
PulseAudio can be a stubborn little daemon. The man page says you
can turn it off with the command pulseaudio
--kill. But depending on your particular Linux distribution,
it won’t stay killed; instead, it respawns itself. This is how it works
on Ubuntu 10.04: It has a normal init script to start it at boot,
/etc/rc2.d/S03pulseaudio. But when you try
controlling this the normal way, it doesn’t work, because running
/etc/init.d/pulseaudio stop doesn’t
stop it. Removing /etc/rc2.d/S03pulseaudio doesn’t prevent it from starting at boot. Fortunately, I am even more stubborn and have figured out how to control stopping and starting Pulse. I don’t want to remove it; I want it to run when I want it to run. (If you want ...
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