Yes great! Before my proposal, I have simply tried without success: pasuspender -- bb
I have added a case here: https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio#Stop_running_the_pulseaudio_daemon_for_a_while So I hope it is just not noise. On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:25:17 +0100 Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > Axel Beckert wrote: > > Patrice Duroux wrote: > > > Another solution to keep pulseaudio installed is just to inactive it > > > before running bb. > […] > > Thanks! Will create a README.pulseaudio with that information to > > mitigate this issue a bit more than disabling audio by default already > > did. > > Actually we have that already in README.Debian since 2015 (and I wrote > that file — seems as if I'm getting demented): > > ---8<--- > BB vs PulseAudio > ================ > > Unfortunately BB does not work under X if PulseAudio is active and > Music is requested. Due to this issue Music in BB is turned off by > default in Debian. > > If you have PulseAudio installed and want to show off BB with Music, > you can do that by either: > > * switching to the virtual text console and running "bb" there, or by > > * temporarily letting PulseAudio release the audio hardware and hiding > from "bb" the fact that there is a PulseAudio server with the > following command: > > pasuspender -- env PULSE_SERVER= bb > > This issue is tracked in the Debian Bug Tracking System at > https://bugs.debian.org/761023 > > -- Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:22:37 +0200 > --->8--- > > Andrej: Does this help you? > > Matt: You said, you had the issue also on the console. Could you check > if that "pasuspender -- env PULSE_SERVER= bb" command workarounds the > issue for you on the virtual console, too? Maybe there's more virtual > console support from pulseaudio nowadays… > > Regards, Axel > -- > ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ > : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin > `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 > `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE > >
