Pulseaudio confusion

[eamoc]

Hi Folks,
Can somebody help me please?
I installed ALSA, and I THINK it pulled in Pulseaudio.
My sound works perfectly, but I cant seem to verify what my sound server is !

If i do: emerge -C pulseaudio, it prepares the system to uninstall it, however if I do rc-service -l, there is no Pulseaudio listed
and if I do ps -ef | grep pulse, I can see that it is not running.

Confused genbtoo user here, can anybody help me out?

[dachschaden]

Maybe it's installed, but you did not add it to the boot runlevel?
That would explain the installed package and the not-running process. Oh, and it explains the working sound.

If you want to be sure: start two different programs that play sound. If you can hear both of them, you are running a sound server. If one program states that it cannot connect to the sound file because another process is blocking the resource, you are using the bareback ALSA interface.

[VoidMage]

I'd say somebody is asking the wrong question.

Why should pulseaudio be listed by 'rc-service -l' ?

Oh, and did you check useflags on alsa-pluginns ?

[eamoc]

Thanks the replies

[VoidMage]

Well, pulseaudio is actually meant to be used as a user daemon, so while there was once (well, actualy still is, under a useflag) a script installed for system-wide use, for most users it's not needed.

There's start-pulseaudio-x11 script, you can add to the script you run as you start your desktop env, but IIRC Gnome/KDE handle it well on their own.

Minor note though: putting versioned strings in package.use files usually doesn't make sense (it sometimes might for slots alone, but other than that, not really).

[eamoc]

Hi VoidMage,

What do you mean by "for slots alone, but other that that not really"?
Still cant figure out whats playing my music