Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-29 Thread Bob
On 01/28/2012 06:04 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/01/12 01:41, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: I use KDE (on Squeeze) and Pulse rarely uses more than 2% even when networked to multiple boxen. Interesting, so likely local config problems. Not that I'd call 5-8% CPU "chugging"

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Harry Putnam schrieb: > I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in > linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a > bit extreme some how. Can you measure how much load pulseaudio itself does ? (in idle vs. active). I'm really curious about those

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Elimar Riesebieter writes: >> Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop >> >> I want to get rid of pulseaudio. > > I've found [0] very useful > > [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1381284 Great thread, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Harry Putnam [120127 00:50 -0500]: > > Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop > > I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I've found [0] very useful [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1381284 Elimar -- On the keyboard of life you have always to keep a finger at the escape key;-) --

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/01/12 01:41, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> I use KDE (on Squeeze) and Pulse rarely uses more than 2% even when >> networked to multiple boxen. > > Interesting, so likely local config problems. > >> Not that I'd call 5-8% CPU "chugging" anyway (chugging means the CPU is

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:50, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Thanks for the tips.  The ouput you suggest is very misleading.  I > would not have surmised from the description it was totally > non-essential. > > Both the first and last lines really do seem to indicate otherwise. > Its first described as

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Harry Putnam
> $ apt-cache show gnome-core > > gnome-core is really only a meta package depending upon the stuff > ‘central to gnome’. Removing the meta package will not remove > anything else, unless you use, for example, apt-get autoremove. > > It might therefore be helpful to check the dependencies of gnome-

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 21:29 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 27/01/12 20:48, Miles Bader wrote: > > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop > >> > >> I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in > >> linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu.

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 18:48 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: > > Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop > > > > I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in > > linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a > > bit extreme some how. > > It

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Harry Putnam wrote: >Claudius Hubig writes: > >>>Things like uninstalling gnome-core. Isn't that a bit dramatic just >>>to get rid of pulseaudio? >>> >>> Remove the following packages >>> 1) gnome-accessibility >>> >>> 2) gnome-co

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: > I use KDE (on Squeeze) and Pulse rarely uses more than 2% even when > networked to multiple boxen. Interesting, so likely local config problems. > Not that I'd call 5-8% CPU "chugging" anyway (chugging means the CPU is > at close to 100%). I never heard that... In fact

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Claudius Hubig writes: >>Things like uninstalling gnome-core. Isn't that a bit dramatic just >>to get rid of pulseaudio? >> >> Remove the following packages >> 1) gnome-accessibility >> >> 2) gnome-core

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Harry Putnam wrote: > >Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop > >I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in >linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a >bit extreme some how. > >But anyway I don't need it. > >aptitude remove pulseaudio > >Offers what a

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/01/12 20:48, Miles Bader wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: >> Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop >> >> I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in >> linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a >> bit extreme some how. > > It seems worth reporting

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Miles Bader
Harry Putnam writes: > Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop > > I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in > linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a > bit extreme some how. It seems worth reporting a bug if it's really consuming that much CPU on

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Brad Alexander
On my machine, I built a dummy package called something like pulseaudio-bogus as an empty package to simply fill the requirement. I used equivs to do this: apt-get install equivs Then create a control file called, say, pulseaudio.ctl: Section: web Package: pulseaudio-bogus Provides: pulseaudio

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Did anybody already recommend to install a dummy package? I switched to Arch Linux, but I had Debian testing with GNOME3 and Xfce and everything was ok, when I replaced libcanberra-pulse and pulseaudio by dummy packages. I suspect only replacing pulseaudio should be all that's needed, can't remembe

Re: how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Harry. You worte: > >Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop > >I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in >linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a >bit extreme some how. > >But anyway I don't need it. > >aptitude remove pulse

how to get rid of pulseaudio gracefully

2012-01-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a bit extreme some how. But anyway I don't need it. aptitude remove pulseaudio Offers what appear to be pretty ridiculous sol