pSX audio problem with PulseAudio

[Agent Smith]

Gentlemen,

pSX (a Playstation 1 emulator) has issues with PulseAudio. Even the author acknowledges that and he says in a next version, will be fixed.
But, in the meantime, if I want to play PS1 games on my PCLOS 2011, I have to get to PCC and turn off PulseAudio.
Ok, but I found in Ubuntu Forums they can just turn off PulseAudio from the CLI.
I've tried the same thing with PCLOS without success.
My question is: Is there an easy way to turn off(and later turn on) PulseAudio from the CLI, and not having to deal with PCC and reboots ?

Thanks in advance,

Best Regards

[menotu]

Can I possibly suggest you post the commands you have tried and that way people won't be duplicating them.

[Agent Smith]

Can I possibly suggest you post the commands you have tried and that way people won't be duplicating them.

Ok dear Mr. Menotu, here they come:

as root, # service pulseaudio stop (no such daemon, the system answers me)

#killall pulseaudio (3x, no effect)

#pulseaudio --help (lots of information on Pulseaudio, but none of the options worked)

So, those were the commands that worked on "that other distro"

Thanks for your quick response,

Best regards

[menotu]

What about:

pulseaudio --kill

[Agent Smith]

What about:

pulseaudio --kill

Nope, no success: Failed to end the process. No such daemon.

But, thanks for your help

Regards

[Ramchu]

Just a thought.
What about   PCC>Hardware>Configure Sound Card>Enable Pulse Audio>Enable user switching for audio applications

Can that possibly work for you ?

[menotu]

I haven't got pulseaudio installed on this system and can't recall whether padevchooser / pavucontrol (in the repos) can be used to turn pulse off.

The following site may offer a few tips

http://linux.die.net/man/1/pulseaudio

[Agent Smith]

Just a thought.
What about   PCC>Hardware>Configure Sound Card>Enable Pulse Audio>Enable user switching for audio applications

Can that possibly work for you ?

Hummm, didn't think of that. I will try it and post the results.

Thanks Mr. Ramchu

I haven't got pulseaudio installed on this system and can't recall whether padevchooser / pavucontrol (in the repos) can be used to turn pulse off.

The following site may offer a few tips

http://linux.die.net/man/1/pulseaudio

Thanks a lot for the info. I will check it out, see if it can help.

Tyvm Mr. Menotu, Tyvm again Mr. Ramchu

[Agent Smith]

No my dear friends, no luck turning off PulseAudio easily on PCLOS.

And I've read through all the suggested  material on line.

Any other ideas ?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

[Just17]

What about:

pulseaudio --kill

Yes this kills the process, but a new one is spawned immediately.

[ternor]

PCLinuxOS Control Centre > Hardware > Sound configuration > Enable PulseAudio

[Agent Smith]

PCLinuxOS Control Centre > Hardware > Sound configuration > Enable PulseAudio

Dear Mr. Ternor,

That much, I believe, it's common knowledge. That's the lengthy way to achieve the turn off of Pulseaudio. And then, one has to reboot the system.
Isn't there an easier (and not have to reboot the system) way ?

Thanks for your tips,

Kind regards

[macuira]

Ok, but I found in another distro Forums they can just turn off PulseAudio from the CLI.

I think they are meaning pulseaudio CLI, you can start it using the pacmd command to open the CLI, take a look at the following links

http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FirstSteps
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/CLI

try to use the exit command, use CTRL+D to exit the pulseaudio CLI

Good Luck